Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:14:02 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: aaron@alpete.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Perl Help For Newbie Message-ID: <408D435A.70506@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <58959.204.118.78.206.1082999243.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> References: <408D3DD7.1050607@mykitchentable.net> <58959.204.118.78.206.1082999243.squirrel@mail.alpete.com>
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On 4/26/2004 10:07 AM Aaron Peterson wrote: >>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) > > This makes sense but how would I keep the files "in sync". I mean how would I be sure that $xx.xx amount corresponded to y product? Would it just "work" because each entry in the description array would have a corresponding entry in the price array? My fear is getting off by one and then having every entry after that be incorrect. Is this a big risk? Thanks for your reply. I know I have a lot to learn. Drew
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