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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Shell scripting vs Perl scripting Post 302438415 by wpeckham on Monday 19th of July 2010 03:24:34 PM
Old 07-19-2010
Shell or PERL

It depends upon your platform and long-term goals. Generally, because it is portable nearly everywhere, I would advise PERL. Longer term: BASH and/or KORN as well. There are things that PERL is not well suited to. It has greater power and is very versatile (and FAST), but anything that has to call or start other processes is better done in a shell. A mature SYSADM will be very comfortable with both shell and PERL coding.
 

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Xapian::PostingIterator(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Xapian::PostingIterator(3pm)

NAME
Search::Xapian::PostingIterator - Iterate over the list of documents indexed by a term. DESCRIPTION
This iterator represents a stream of documents indexed by a term. It overloads "++" for advancing the iterator, or you can explicitly call the "inc" method. This class also overloads "eq", "ne", "==", "!=", and "" (stringification). METHODS
new Constructor. Defaults to an uninitialized iterator. clone inc Advance the iterator by one. (Called implictly by "++" overloading). skip_to <tname> Skip the iterator to term tname, or the first term after tname if tname isn't in the list of terms being iterated. get_docid Get the unique id of this document. get_wdf Return the wdf of the current term (if meaningful). positionlist_begin Return Search::Xapian::PositionIterator pointing to start of positionlist for current term. positionlist_end Return Search::Xapian::PositionIterator pointing to end of positionlist for current term. get_doclength Get the length of the document at the current position in the postlist. This information may be stored in the postlist, in which case this lookup should be extremely fast (indeed, not require further disk access). If the information is not present in the postlist, it will be retrieved from the database, at a greater performance cost. equal <term> Checks if a term is the same as this term. Also overloaded to the "eq" and "==" operators. nequal <term> Checks if a term is different from this term. Also overloaded to the "ne" and "!=" operators. get_description Return a description of this object. SEE ALSO
Search::Xapian,Search::Xapian::Database perl v5.14.2 2012-05-09 Xapian::PostingIterator(3pm)
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