Re: [MacPerl] Perl Filter Demos?

[robinmcf@altern.org]

>BBEdit (a fine GUI-based text editor for Macs) is capable of running
>MacPerl-based filters on selected text.  I understand that some other
>editors (e.g., vim) also have this capability.
>
>I would love to have some intriguing demo filters on hand at WWDC (the
>Apple World Wide Developers Conference) in a week or so.  They should
>have a strong "Gee Whiz!" factor.  It would also be nice if they can
>be explained to mortal programmers...
>
>Does anyone feel like suggesting (or even coding up :-) something?

 Here's one I use with Alpha to template new scripts, pretty clear I guess
and not exactly wowee in the effects area, but it saves having to CUT n
PASTE, or using a simpletext boilerplate both requiring fussing about and
maybe losing the thread of what I was doing. In Alpha  as long as I have
one window open, running this filter  will cause it to act on a seperate
'OUTPUT' window so I don't have to worry about zapping anything  I'd rather
leave alone, or I can manually set it to overwrite the uppermost window.


__BEGIN__
#! -w

use strict;
use diagnostics-verbose;

print<<END;
\#! perl -w

\#=========== declare includes =============

use strict;
use diagnostics-verbose;

\#========== declare variables =============

my();

\#============= script body ================






\#========= sub routine separator ===========
__END__

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