I think you have Jacinta's surname wrong in the announcement below.. unless by a huge coincidence there are two Jacinta's doing Perl training in Melbourne.
On 30/10/13 11:29, Les Kitchen wrote: > Start: Nov 6 2013 19:00 *Wednesday* > End: Nov 6 2013 21:00 > Location: > The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity > College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. > Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map > > Lev Lafayette: MMORPGs and Linux > > Jacinta Richards: Don't repeat yourself. Fun with parsing > > NOTE: Because of Cup day, we meet this month on *Wednesday*. > > Lev Lafayette: MMORPGs and Linux > > Lev will talk about Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing > Games and Linux. Lev is currently LUV President. > > Jacinta Richards: Don't repeat yourself. Fun with parsing > > The problem: your client gives you a document covering the > specification of some weird message format they want you to > handle. It's tab delimited, and pure ASCII, but actually some > fields are multi-part and include tabs, and nothing is > quoted. Oh, and actually there's multiple different kinds of > messages you will need to parse. > > The solution: Using Perl 5.10+ and named capture groups we'll > create a data definition. Over the rest of the talk we'll be > taking advantage of a host of tactics (including re-parsing a > regular expression) to see how we can take an interesting > problem and make it fun again. Although Perl will be used in > this talk, and code will be shown, hopefully you won't actually > need to know any Perl at all to understand the ideas I run > through. > > Jacinta says: I speak for a living. I run Perl training courses, > I speak at Perl monger meetings, user groups and numerous > conferences across the world. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
