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

[Trevor Little]

"chatter" ne "mindless chatter"

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mike South <msouth at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Trevor Little <trevormg19 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Glad you got it working. Thanks for posting to the list. Good to see some
>> chatter =)
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> Wait, you want chatter?  You should have said something!  That I can
> definitely help with.
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> mike
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>> Trevor
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>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM, John Ricker <sephtin+pm-talk at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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