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Back in May, writer Jun Wu told in her blog how Perl excels at text manipulation. She often uses it to tidy data sets, a necessity as data is often collected with variations and cleaning it up before use is a necessity. She goes through many one-liners which help make that easy.
Having old reliables is my key to success. Ever since I learned Perl during the dot com bubble, I knew that I was forever beholden to its powers to transform.
You heard me. Freedom is the word here with Perl.
When I'm coding freely at home on my fun data science project, I rely on it to clean up my data.
In the real world, data is often collected with loads of variations. Unless you are using someone's "clean" dataset, you better learn to clean that data real fast.
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Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @06:10PM (4 children)
But is Perl 6 used for /anything/ yet?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @07:03PM
You brave! I was too afraid to ask that. No. Just, no.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @09:35PM
I use it for fun, it's a hell of a language. But I can't find anyone to pay me to work on it and I'm not aware of anything with tens of thousands users that is written in it. And of course tens of thousands of users isn't many, to be really notable it would need millions.
I've written a script that wraps ffmpeg and uses it to reencode all of my video files to something compatible with my Kodi gadget. Plus a bunch of other miscellaneous scripts.
So give it a look if the mood strikes. (And I realize that for most people the mood will never strike.)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @01:41AM
It was used for my IRC bot, MrPlow for maybe a month. Then it got too painful to use anymore and I rewrote him in C. He's currently written in Rust just because I felt like learning the language.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday September 20 2019, @03:09AM
Perl 6 is a whole new language, and not a successor to Perl 5. Everyone is still using Perl 5 while trying to suss out 6. Repos are not going to drop 5 anytime soon for this reason.
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