File Processing: How To Perform Loads Of Useful File Processing Tasks

by Eddy Namihira

Learn a way to use Perl and ordinary expressions to govern documents in Windows surroundings and take the boredom out of repetitive record processing. The book covers duties along with a way to create, delete, and merge documents, a way to extract information from them, and a way to convert them from one layout to another. All of the scripts, applications, and different documents used withinside the book are free to be had for download from the Quick Start Workbook website. There is even an unfastened ordinary expression tester (regex tester) that you may download and simply run out of your desktop. Together, Perl and ordinary expressions make a tremendous crew in terms of processing documents along with HTML and XML pages. Perl's capacity to govern documents mixed with the electricity of ordinary expressions to look for alternate strings inside the one's documents offer an effective device that may be used in lots of situations. By using several examples, that are all completely defined to make certain that you recognize precisely what every Perl script is doing, this workbook will train you a way to carry out masses of beneficial record processing duties, inclusive of a way to- Process a listing of documents entered on the command line prompt.- Process all of the documents of a selected kind withinside the present-day folder.- Process exclusive styles of documents placed in numerous folders.- Use ordinary expressions to extract information from more than one document and integrate that information right into an unmarried record.- Use ordinary expressions to transform documents from one kind to another, for example, XML to CSV.- Run Perl scripts from Windows applications.- Integrate a Perl script right into a textual content editor.No programming revel is needed in any respect to paintings via and use the pattern scripts contained in this workbook, even though fundamental information of markup languages along with HTML and XML can be beneficial to make a number of the examples greater thrilling to you, however, is now no longer a previous requirement to recognize what goes on withinside the examples.

136 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 22, 2022