Re: Want to make a CFX tag but have only CF language expereience

2001-09-20 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:09:14 -0400, Jeremy Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perl is excellent for parsing data. I'd have to agree with this... I try and stick with the best tool for the job as much as possible and anything to do with parsing text files just screams Perl! to me. CFX tags can also

Re: Want to make a CFX tag but have only CF language expereience

2001-09-18 Thread Larry W. Virden
from: Jon Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] CFX programming is done in either Java or C++ (others?). Java is by far the easier to learn though. I cant really speak for C, but the process for interfacing with CF via the Java CFX api is prettty simple as long as you understand Java. I dont know if I have

RE: Want to make a CFX tag but have only CF language expereience

2001-09-18 Thread Jeremy Allen
Perl is excellent for parsing data. Java will also work well. You may want to chop the file up into chunks and process each chunk so that you are not processing an entire 400 megabyte file at once. The C++ CFX API is not really that difficult and is documented fairly well. I have a lot of

Want to make a CFX tag but have only CF language expereience

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Everland
Ok I was finally given a chore that I can not accomplish with CF. I have to through a whole month of proxy logs that are about 400mb total looking up specfic users and the entries they made based on certain sites. It involves a lot of looping and text file reading. It just messes up all

Re: Want to make a CFX tag but have only CF language expereience

2001-09-17 Thread Jon Hall
CFX programming is done in either Java or C++ (others?). Java is by far the easier to learn though. I cant really speak for C, but the process for interfacing with CF via the Java CFX api is prettty simple as long as you understand Java. I dont know if I have formal programming experience, but I