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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need Advice Post 302530135 by Skrynesaver on Monday 13th of June 2011 04:07:28 AM
Old 06-13-2011
If you already have a familiarity with shell scripting you should pick up Perl very quickly as it is based on sh, awk, sed and a little bit of C.

Perl is excellent at text processing, it has its own database independent module for SQL processing and there is an Oracle definition for this so you can use it to extract informnation from your DB and report on it in HTML format (the CGI.pm module offers a very easy way to produce structured HTML).

However, for me, the real strength of Perl is for quick production of scripts to extract information from a DB or plain text (or just about anything as it can handle an enormous range of formats using the modules on CPAN.

I'd strongly reccomend learning Perl as it should be fairly intuitive for you with your skill-set.
 

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HTML::Quoted(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 HTML::Quoted(3pm)

NAME
HTML::Quoted - extract structure of quoted HTML mail message SYNOPSIS
use HTML::Quoted; my $html = '...'; my $struct = HTML::Quoted->extract( $html ); DESCRIPTION
Parses and extracts quotation structure out of a HTML message. Purpose and returned structures are very similar to Text::Quoted. SUPPORTED FORMATS
Variouse MUAs use quite different approaches for quoting in mails. Some use blockquote tag and it's quite easy to parse. Some wrap text into p tags and add '>' in the beginning of the paragraphs. Things gettign messier when it's an HTML reply on plain text mail thread. If you found format that is not supported then file a bug report via rt.cpan.org with as short as possible example. Test file is even better. Test file with patch is the best. Not obviouse patches without tests suck. METHODS
extract my $struct = HTML::Quoted->extract( $html ); Takes a string with HTML and returns array reference. Each element in the array either array or hash. For example: [ { 'raw' => 'Hi,' }, { 'raw' => '<div><br><div>On date X wrote:<br>' }, [ { 'raw' => '<blockquote>' }, { 'raw' => 'Hello,' }, { 'raw' => '<div>How are you?</div>' }, { 'raw' => '</blockquote>' } ], ... ] Hashes represent a part of the html. The following keys are meaningful at the moment: o raw - raw HTML o quoter_raw, quoter - raw and decoded (entities are converted) quoter if block is prefixed with quoting characters AUTHOR
Ruslan.Zakirov <ruz@bestpractical.com> LICENSE
Under the same terms as perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2011-01-09 HTML::Quoted(3pm)
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