Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:07:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Aaron Peterson" <aaron@alpete.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Perl Help For Newbie Message-ID: <58959.204.118.78.206.1082999243.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> In-Reply-To: <408D3DD7.1050607@mykitchentable.net> References: <408D3DD7.1050607@mykitchentable.net>
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> Any guidance as to the best way to approach this task would be most > appreciated. I've > done lots of reading but haven't found anything that teaches me how to > "think" about > building this script. probably the best way to approach this is writing a script to generate the complete html in multiple formats instead of writing a script to search through html to find values, calculate, and replace. what i mean, is if you had a single file with the US dollar values for everything, then you wrote a script that used those values to generate complete html pages (doing whatever conversions you needed in the process), that would probably be easier than searching through pre-existing html and doing substitution via regex. then in the future you would only have to change prices in one place and re-run the script, or change the conversion algorithm and rerun the script to get all new html pages. (html, xml and other markup is notoriosly difficult to regex)
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