On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:07:05PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
> I've got an article in the July "Linux Magazine" ("Hitting the
> Motherlode") about regexes (mainly in Perl). In it, I use the term
> "munge". FOLDOC[1] says "a derogatory term meaning to imperfectly
> transform data", but I don't think it's such a bad term.
>
> For me, munge just means using whatever means necessary to "massage" data
> from one format to another -- that might mean extracting stuff, changing
> its layout, or transforming it to an entirely different format. And I use
> "massage" here, because it's accurate: sometimes, you get a gentle
> backrub, and sometimes, you get painful hand-chopping on your spine.
Huh, pretty funny.
Would you make a distinction between parsing and munging? For example,
if you wrote a script to convert Word RTF to XML, is that parsing or is
that still munging?
Paul
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