Re: scripting an interactive web page

On Tue, April 13, 2010 10:05 am, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> "Voytek Eymont" <[email protected]> writes:

>> links -dump crc.html > a.txt awk '$1 !~ /(^$)/' a.txt  > a.ful awk
>> '/Page/, /References/  { print }' a.ful  > a

> ...that works.  IIRC, some versions of awk also support the '/Page/ && $1
> ...'
> syntax, but I confess that I don't know which — by that point I usually
> have Perl in hand.
>
>
>> yes, I'm now thinking 'if I could make a vcal file out of this, that
>> would be even nicer...'
>>
>> are you aware of any tools to convert to 'Title Case' ?
>
> perl -n -e 'print ucfirst'
>
>> I see plenty options to convert upper/lower case, but haven't found any
>> for Title Case
>>
>
> Seriously, by that stage I would be treating this as a reason to pick up
> a more capable language and use that.  For example, there are [iv]Cal
> modules for Perl that you can push the data into, and which will emit
> correct XML for other applications to consume.
>
> Much easier than hand-hacking it, then discovery you need to
> entity-encode bits, then that you need a CDATA section in the PCDATA,
> then...

Daniel, thanks again

yes, when I was searching for 'vcal', all references I found were pointing
to perl vcal classess or libraries

I kinda tried to look up some of that vcal perl info, but, didn't
understand most of it.

I guess I might need to try harder, thanks again for all the help

-- 
Voytek

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