On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Jason Elbaum wrote: > I'm reading a set of files which contain the results of a multiplayer > team game.
[...] > My goal is to read the relevant game data and produce statistical > reports of various types, such as the average points scored on each > type of event, perhaps broken down by team or location or player or > time of day or range of dates or game state. I don't know in advance > what analyses I'll want to run, so I'm looking to develop a general > infrastructure to support them. Thinking data-mining: feed your files into an XML database (e.g., http://exist.sourceforge.net/, http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/xml/index.html) and then use either SQL or XQuery in order to query them. > In any case, the XML side only involves reading the above file types > and extracting the data items of interest. Not necessarily by you. If you use XML databade, you might only need to define semantics (e.g., schema, relations between names and types) > Obviously, I can also do this with a set of regular expressions, but > it seems wasteful and unreliable. Regular expressions is a bad bad bad way to process context-free structures. -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
