Re: [MacPerl] New User's MacPerl Questions

["Stephen M. Gray" <sgray@trendmasters.com>]

>1) Is there an extension or AppleScript for BBEdit to run/syntax check MacPerl
>scripts that I'm editing in BBEdit?

Perl Tools, Perl Palette, Perl Filters:
ftp://members.aol.com/bradh5/bbedit/index.html
Dream come true IMHO!

>
>2) My UNIX-centric learning Perl book uses something like system('date') get the
>date from the machine. When I do this I always get a -1. I guess my question is
>-- where in the documentation does it cover finding the date and assigning it to
>a variable?
>
>3) Many of the text files I'll be encoding into HTML will have special Mac
>characters like option-8 bullets and long dashes. What is the best way to tackle
>this?

Check out MacPerl, Power and Ease, writtem by a few fellow list members.
http://www.ptf.com/macperl/

>
>4) I'd like to be able to 'watch' a folder (like in AS with an idle timer), is
>this a MacPerl question, or should I just buy the next book in that UNIX-centric
>Perl series?

You could always just wait a month until MacOS 8.5 comes out and use its
folder action along with an AppleScript that calls a MacPerl script...


Good luck,
Steve


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