On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 04:27:00PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > I had a research project once that looked at hundreds of geodetic surveying > app outputs, snagged them, parsed them and then I subjected the flat files > to Excel for light-weight statistical analysis. I think I spent more time > getting the regexes correct , by a factor of easily 24, than on generating > the data once the raw surveying data were collected and uploaded. I must > have "fixed" regexes on an hourly basis before rerunning the job. From > start to failure. Again.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 4:11 PM Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote: > > > > > Some old and really bad nightmares still begin with, "It's just Perl". > > I'll > > > see about loading it up, and adding a dongle. Should be straightforward > > at > > > home. > > > > There _may_ be others on the Xastir list that know a little Perl and can > > help... > > > > Perl: The first write-only language? > > > > -- > > Curt, WE7U. http://we7u.wetnet.net > > "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of > > knowledge." -Stephen Hawking > > Coordinate Converter (Android): http://www.sarguydigital.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > > -- > Gerry Creager > NSSL/CIMMS > 405.325.6371 > ++++++++++++++++++++++ > ???Big whorls have little whorls, > That feed on their velocity; > And little whorls have lesser whorls, > And so on to viscosity.??? > Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953) > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
