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Updated 19 April 2011

A Short Guide to Useful PERL Commands (Under Construction)

Active Perl Version 5.8.8 from ActiveState.Com.

To run these programs in WINDOZE type:

C:\Perl\bin\Perl -w program.pl

This assumes that you have installed PERL in the above path! I strongly advise you to use a simple path because PERL is, for all intents and purposes, a command line language. The "-w" is a UNIX style switch that turns on warnings that you will need to debug code.

30 May 2006

getmeasure.pl -- Simple Program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs the web page measure_ucsd.htm, and writes it to local disk.

getdata.pl -- Simple Program that goes to ftp://voteview.com/dtaord/, grabs a roll call matrix, and writes it to local disk.

getdatamccain.pl -- Program that goes to ftp://voteview.com/dtaord/, grabs a roll call matrix, writes it to local disk, and searches for a particular string and writes the record containing the string to disk.

getmeasure4.pl -- Program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a text file, and writes it to local disk as a web page.

webbuild3.pl -- Program that reads a text file and turns it into a web page (see documentation in the program)
To run this program in WINDOZE type:

C:\Perl\bin\Perl -w webbuild3.pl blurb.txt

6 June 2006

PerlTk_Hello.pl -- Simple "Hello World!" GUI Program that creates a Window and a push button in the Window

getblurbsearch.pl -- Program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a text file, and does a search and replace on the text of the page.

getmeasuresearch.pl -- Program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a web page, and does a search and replace on the text in the page.

getmeasuretags.pl -- Program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a web page, and parses all the tags in the page.

13 June 2006

getridoftags.pl -- Program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a web page, and deletes all the tags in the page and writes it as a text file.

getmeasureimages.pl -- Program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a web page, processes all the image tags in the page, and writes out their attributes in a text file.

20 June 2006

getlogfile.pl -- First draft of a program that parses a WINDOZE NT logfile. It goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a log file, and parses it for the number of unique IP numbers by web page hits.

29 June 2006

getdefaultlinks.pl -- A program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs the home page, parses it for the links to other pages, and then downloads those pages.

getlogfile2.pl -- Second draft of a program that parses a WINDOZE NT logfile. It goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs a log file, and parses it for the number of unique IP numbers by web page hits.

13 July 2006

gettable.pl -- A program that goes to http://pooleandrosenthal.com, grabs Table.htm, and parses it for the Table displayed by the HTML code.

20 July 2006

getcensustable.pl -- A program that goes to the Bureau of the Census, grabs a Table in HTML format, and parses it for the Table.

getcensustablepre.pl -- A program that goes to the Bureau of the Census, grabs a Table in plain text format, and parses it for the Table (unfinished).

getlogfile2.pl -- A program that parses an NT log file (partly successful!).

19 April 2011

getlogfile3.pl -- A program that parses an NT log file.