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

[Trevor Little]

Ha. I used single quotes in an essay I was writing the other day and Anna
complained about them when she was proofreading. I realized that I had used
them for exactly that reason.

Trevor

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Mike South <msouth at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Trevor Little <trevormg19 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> "chatter" ne "mindless chatter"
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> You really don't need the double quotes if you're not interpolating
> anything...
>
> mike
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>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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
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>>>>
>>>> Trevor
>>>>
>>>>  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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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