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Welcome to P6C Perls, the P6 Consulting Perl Library. This is a small collection of deceptively simple, yet very powerful Perl scripts that you may freely use and adapt. This is a small sample of the kinds of things that we do with Perl on the Windows platform, to say nothing of what we do with Perl in the CGI space on Red Hat Linux for our Web sites.
Check out our newest Perl, P6TrimText.pl, a little program that makes quick work
of removing stray white space from text files. Extra blank lines and trailing white space causes
programmers all sorts of difficulty, from unexpcted errors on data imports to erratic program
behavior, especially from programs that print formatted text. I have wanted to have such a
program for a long time, and I was finally motivated to write this one last week. Use this script
to banish stray blanks from your text files.
We invite your inquiries about using Perl and many other powerful tools to create programs that help you use computers to solve problems in imaginative ways.
Though the usual practice is to publish Perl scripts as is, with only embedded documentation, we intend these scripts to serve a wider audience. Therefore, we compiled the embedded documentation into a regular HTML page that can be viewed in a standard Web browser. This is easy to do with tools that come with the ActiveState Perl distribution that we use.
The other reason these Perl scripts are wrapped in packages is so that we could include
the MS-DOS program P6PAUSE.COM that you can include as the last line in a
batch file to prevent a command window from closing until you examine the console output
generated by the script. Like the accompanying Perl scripts, P6PAUSE.COM is
free but unsupported software.
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Download |
MD5 Digest |
P6LongLines.pl |
1.02 |
24 February 2005 |
Scan a delimited export and report malformed records. |
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P6_CheckDE.pl |
1.01 |
18 April 2004 |
Scan a delimited export and report malformed records. |
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P6_CountLines.pl |
1.03 |
18 April 2004 |
Count lines in any standard ASCII file. |
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P6_EnumFormFlds.pl |
1.00 |
18 April 2004 |
Enumerate fields in all forms in a HTML document and write the details into an XML document. |
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P6_HTTP_Head.pl |
1.10 |
18 April 2004 |
Send a HTTP HEAD request to get the summary information for a document. This is also a slick way to learn what kind of server hosts the page. |
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P6_SampleDE.pl |
1.02 |
18 April 2004 |
Create a sample containing an arbitrary number of records selected by extracting every nth record from a large delimited ASCII file. |
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P6_SplitDE.pl |
1.04 |
18 April 2004 |
Split a text file into smaller files containing a specified maximum number of lines apiece. |
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P6TrimText.pl |
1.01 |
06 March 2005 |
Cleanse a text file up to two ways.
Default operation removes only extra blank lines at the end of a file. Command line swithces permit you to completely control the behavior of the script. Like all Perl scripts, it makes short work of even the largest text files. |
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The Works |
1.00 |
11 August 2006 |
This archive contains all the scripts and their documentation. |
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In order to use this package on a Windows machine, you need three things.
Though you can get a good bit of benefit from these scripts without knowing anything about Perl, you need a working knowledge of Perl to adapt them to other tasks. If you do so, we expect that the documentation of the code itself will ease your learning curve.
Installation on a Windows machine requires up to three steps.
.PL extension.PATH.You are ready to go. Lower your goggles and fasten your seat belt. Perl scripts are lightning fast!
These scripts can also be used on Unix and Linux machines with some modifications, which are beyond the scope of this document. If you know a bit about shell scripts, you should be able to work out these changes on your own.
David A. Gray, of Simple Soft Services, Inc, d/b/a WizardWrx, http://www.wizardwrx.com or use this form.
Copyright (c) 2005-2006, David A. Gray, of Simple Soft Services, Inc, d/b/a WizardWrx. All rights reserved world wide.
These programs are free software; you may redistribute and/or modify them under the same terms as Perl tself.
Last Updated 11 August 2006
© 2006, WizardWrx. All rights reserved world wide.