LPM: test

[R Mullikin]

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 08:36:38PM -0500, Thus spake Rich Bowen (rbowen at rcbowen.com):

> R Mullikin wrote:
> > 
> > I'm a total newbie to Perl, and I'm wondering if this might be a good
> > application for Perl.  The only thing I've done so far in Perl is a
> > little program to clean up and format an IIS log file so I could read
> > it.
> > 
> > Anyway, would Perl be a good tool to use to take a file of
> > comma-delimited data and spin it into a bunch of fixed-format web
> > pages (by fixed format I mean that there's a bunch of static HTML and
> > the data from the file goes in the same place on each page)?
> 
> Perl would be absolutely ideal for such a thing. In fact, it was
> invented to do something not terribly unlike that. It was before the web
> and HTML, but the idea was similar - taking a bunch of data files, and
> spinning then into fixed-format reports.
> 
> One module that would be really good for this would be the
> Text::Template module, which takes a static template file (could be
> HTML) and puts data into fixes places on that template.
>  
> > Also, are there any good repositories of 'code-snippets' which might
> > keep one from constantly re-creating the wheel?
> 
> Yes. It's called CPAN. http://www.cpan.org/ There is also a "scripts"
> section within CPAN that is good for snippets and whole functioning
> scripts. But the bulk of CPAN is modules, which give you additional
> functionality for doing stuff. Come to Perl Mongers next month, and
> you'll learn all about modules!
> 
> Rich
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How would I know if I have the Test::Template module or not?
I run RH 6.0 at home on a DEC Alpha, and I installed Perl on 
several of our Dell/NT machines at the office (along with VIM).

Thanks for the help.

Richard
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