[Raleigh-talk] Issues after converting bash to Perl - way to call a config file that contains if/then logic

[Mike South]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Trevor Little <trevormg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad you got it working. Thanks for posting to the list. Good to see some
> chatter =)


Wait, you want chatter?  You should have said something!  That I can
definitely help with.

mike


>
> Trevor
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM, John Ricker <sephtin+pm-talk at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Trevor said >  However, I hesitate to even point that out since logic in
>> the config file is probably a bad idea as was pointed out. If you're hash of
>> all possible options is not super big (megabytes) I'd just go that route and
>> not worry about the memory. You may be optimizing prematurely.
>> Michael said > How many config variables are we talking about? If it's
>> less than a thousand I doubt you'll event notice the memory usage.
>>
>> I totally acknowledge that it's probably not a good idea, but it would
>> simplify things for me a bit..  Hash would as well (copy pasting, instead of
>> editing a ton of different files)..
>> The variables are all 8digit hex color codes, there are about 26 vars that
>> I'm expecting to grab from the config file (in hash scenario, would be 26
>> members), and currently 19 different possibilities, will be 50 by the end of
>> the month, and I expect it to grow as themes/ROMs/probably devices are added
>> later.
>>
>> This whole thing takes place on a web server (including zipping, running
>> binaries to zipalig, and decompile some components), where I KNOW I have a
>> very limited amount of memory (256 with 384 burst, iirc), not to mention
>> there could be 50 people trying to run this at the same time.. :P  (Maybe
>> not now.. but in theory).
>> From the numbers, the variables are pretty insignificant... ;P
>>
>> Thanks for the example code Mike, from it I did find what I was doing
>> wrong last night... and got require working...
>> And Michael for the article... In my case, this will sit on a webserver
>> and users will never touch the config file... It's for me.
>>
>> The script is for android theming...
>> Currently, I have working a 'require', with 2 files.  one holds info on
>> the ROM (the stuff on the phone), and one holds info on the theme that the
>> user selected to apply.  The vars in each are compared, and if they don't
>> match up, then the file that holds that text is modified and marked for
>> inclusion (that's essentially how it works, anyway).
>>
>> I'd have to re-work a good bit of the script if I change over to hash, so
>> I'll add it to my todo list, but it works well now.  thanks again!
>>
>> -John
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