Re: [MacPerl] any practical eg.s for macperl day2day usage?

[Matt Childress <childress@news-gazette.com>]

At 8:19 PM -0500 8/19/97, Joseph\"ALVIS\"Alexander Snow wrote:
>what might one use macperl for in day to day tasks?
>what might one use it for in any sort of production environment?

Here at the paper, we've got multiple mainframe/pc/mac systems, all patched
together so that we can move stories/files around.  A lot of times the
programmer's on the other end can't figure out/don't want to spend the time
to prep files the way we need them to be, so I use Perl to process the
files before we load them up to the WWW.

Our classifieds are pre-processed with MacPerl (basically a lot of regular
expressions/search replace) and then ftp'd via Anarchie up to the server on
a daily basis, and it takes about 15 minutes to do the whole entire process
(<1min for the MacPerl portion).  It's a drag -n- drop operation, so it's
pretty brainless.

On the news content side, each story is transferred over to the mac
network, and then cleaned up and HTML-ized by MacPerl, and then uploaded
via a browser.

I also use Perl on our NT Webserver (not my choice) to do an HTTP
connection to the websever to make sure the !#$#@# thing stays up and
reboots it when it's not.

>I need to envision examples...

Matt

childress@news-gazette.com
http://www.news-gazette.com/



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