Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Quick desktop screencap


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Mike said...

Ahhhhh! Iggy is watching on your desktop!

We're all going to jail.. in two weeks.

6/27/07, 10:16 PM
Anonymous said...

I'll be a coder dork for a second and ignore the fun error messages and comments.

Wny do you run the match several times? It seems like your config file is a bunch of name/value pairss and you could do something like this:

my $line=$_;
if ($line=~/^(.+)=(.+)/) {
if ($1 eq 'dir') {
} else if ($1 eq 'name') {
}
}

I didn't think through this at all and certainly didn't try and run it and now it occurs to me that your confg file isn't all 'name=value' and you depend on the word "backup*******" before the other attributes, but still, it's early and I felt like giving some undeserved criticism.

6/28/07, 6:02 AM
Fletch said...

It was an odd bit of code.

The first match find the line that goes:
dir = c:\omg\wtf\bbq
Then it sets the full path to a variable.

The next match strips off the last directory (c:\omg\wtf) The extra bit of strangeness (\\[^\\]+\\*$) makes it match whether someone put a trailing backslash or not. If you've still got a way to shorten it, I'll do it! I lurve shortening my code.

6/28/07, 12:12 PM
Anonymous said...

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6/28/07, 2:31 PM
Fletch said...

Ahhh... I read you comment again after lunch and see what you actually were talking about.

Only running the match once then checking the input with multiple if statements would save a small amount of time, but then I'd have to define variables to hold the initial values of $1 and $2 (as they are only place holders, and don't hold their values very well through other regexs, and can't do all the things regular variables can do) This would add a few more lines of code to define variables that have little use. If I was checking for 1000 possibilities I'd do it that way.

There's only 5 lines it's reading (per backup set) and only one line is unmatched. I only lose a few milliseconds, and I'm not concerned about those. (otherwise I would be using a compiled language)

Plus, it's quick, and easy to understand ;)

6/28/07, 3:50 PM

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