As a Christian, I certainly commend such use of Perl to support Biblical study, or whatever.
I think I can think of better ways to approach this problem, but first idea that comes to me is to recommend the use of OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language). >From CPAN, XML::OPML and the like. This may be too advanced, but if you want true outline behavior and functionality, I think this is a good way to go. I haven't tried it myself, yet, but encountered it during some research for a pet project which has gone nowhere. You may be interested to know of another languishing pet project. A Christian computer game teaching Christian principles with a mechanical analogue. I want to use Blender3D programming in Perl instead of Python, but that may be a pipe dream. Regards, -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Wayne A. 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Today's Topics: 1. generating and populating files using a systematic name scheme (Russell L. Harris) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:18:25 -0500 From: "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [pm-h] generating and populating files using a systematic name scheme To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Over the weekend, I am attempting to use Perl for the task outlined below. I have a copy of "Learning Perl" and "Perl Cookbook". I likely shall be doing things the hard way, so I welcome recommendations from anyone who is interested. RLH %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % TASK: Using an outline template and a set of text files, create a set of outline files, one per chapter, for each book in the Bible. The files are to be named according to the following scheme: outline-xx-yyy in which xx is the sequential book number (01, 02, 03, ...) and yyy is the sequential chapter number (001, 002, 003, ...). Each outline file starts out as a copy of the outline template, into which is copied the text of the corresponding chapter, the book name, the sequential book number, the sequential chapter number, and the filename. DATA: The Bible text is contained in a set of files named '01', '02', etc., in which each filename is the sequential book number ('01' for Genesis, '02' for Exodus, etc.). In each of these files, each newline-delimited record corresponds to a single verse, and chapters are delimited by the chapter number followed by a colon (:), as follows: 1:1 text of the first verse 2 text of the second verse 3 text of the third verse ... 31 text of the last verse 2:1 text of the first verse 2 text of the second verse 3 text of the third verse ... 25 text of the last verse 3:1 text of the first verse ... ASSOCIATIONS FILE: A file is used to associate the sequential book number, the book name, and the number of chapters in the book. In this file, each newline-delimited record corresponds to a single book: 01 Genesis 50 02 Exodus 40 ... OUTLINE TEMPLATE: In the outline template, several strings (each of which begins with an equals sign (=)) act as placeholders for: the bookname, the sequential book number, the sequential chapter number, the outline filename (which is used in a URL), and the Bible text of the chapter: =bookname =book =chapter =filename =bibletext PLAN OF ATTACK: (1) Step record-by-record through the association file. Using the sequential book number and the number of chapters from each record, append the filename 'outline-xx-yyy' to a copy of the outline template. (2) Step file-by-file through the outline files (approximately a thousand in number) which were generated in step one: (2.1) Copy the outline filename into the '=filename' field of the outline file. (2.2) Decompose the outline filename in order to obtain the value to enter into the '=book' and '=chapter" fields of the file. (2.3) Use the 'book' value from the outline filename to index into the associations file, in order to obtain the string to enter into the '=bookname' field of the outline file. (2.4) Use the 'book' value from the outline filename to index into the Bible text directory to select the proper book file; then use the 'chapter' value from the outline filename to index into the book file to select the proper chapter; and finally copy the text of the chapter from the book file into the '=bibletext' field of the outline file. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/ End of Houston Digest, Vol 41, Issue 11 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
