I definately hear what you're getting at... I personally prefer to use shell script in scenario's like that. On the other hand, I do think the best place for perl these days lives in Linux administration software. Its robust enough to hand alot of delicate parsing and can easily take a big workload.
For web use though... its a total abomination. Cheers, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Richard Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs LAMP On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:35, Kevin Aebig wrote: > Coldfusion... PHP... dotNET... truely guys, its all the same thing with > different implementations. > > Now Perl on the other hand.... Why won't that language just die already... For CGI scripting, Perl has its uses (though I personally haven't used it for that purpose in years). For server-side scripting, though -- like when you need to go through all 4,000 files in all 600 subdirectories from your webroot with a specific naming convention and replace the form action tag with with a new string, the contents of which depend on the name of the directory just above the current subdirectory if that directory name contains a capital letter or a number -- why there ain't nothin' better than Perl. Pound out a four line script, chmod to executable, execute it with perl -w script_name.pl, and you're in business. Assuming you know what the heck you're doing with those regular expressions. And yes, that is something I really have faced. Several times. -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III UC Davis Extension Distance Education Group 2901 K Street Sacramento, CA 95816 (916)327-7793 http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:208417 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
