finally put my pet project back online

[richard]

http://oldies.1littleworld.com/

Nothing but pure text in table format for now.

 

[Travis Newbury]

But...Oh My GAWD!  No doctype!  How depressing - for the world in general but
particularly this newsgroup.  Now I think I will go and take a shit.

Hey, I left one in the woods a while ago. You can take that one if
you like.

 

[richard]

Congrats. That's about the biggest table I ever saw.

But...Oh My GAWD! No doctype! How depressing - for the world in general but
particularly this newsgroup. Now I think I will go and take a shit.

If ya think that's bad, try the original site I got the info from.
There was all kinds of useless coding crap that I had to strip from
it.
Instead of using CSS, he included tons of &160;'s in each line.
Then he couldn't make his mind up which style of quotes he wanted to
use.

http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19600102.html

here's an example:
<tr><td class="tw">  1</td><td class="title"
colspan="2"><b>WHY</b><br>
    Frankie Avalon–Chancellor
1045</td><td class="pw">  2</td><td
class="pw">  7</td><td class="pw">13</td><td
class="wks">  7</td></tr>

I just ran one page through the validator and it came up with tons of
"non-SGML character".

At least the few errors I have are easily corrected.

 

[Neredbojias]

Hey, I left one in the woods a while ago. You can take that one if
you like.

Well, I may not have always been the most law-abiding citizen in all
flavors of jurisprudence, but I am fastidiously scrupulous when it comes
to taking other peoples' shits. Why don't you offer it to Richter? He
seems the type.

 

[Neredbojias]

If ya think that's bad, try the original site I got the info from.
There was all kinds of useless coding crap that I had to strip from
it.
Instead of using CSS, he included tons of &160;'s in each line.
Then he couldn't make his mind up which style of quotes he wanted to
use.

http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19600102.html

here's an example:
<tr><td class="tw">  1</td><td class="title"
colspan="2"><b>WHY</b><br>
    Frankie Avalon–Chancellor
1045</td><td class="pw">  2</td><td
class="pw">  7</td><td class="pw">13</td><td
class="wks">  7</td></tr>

I just ran one page through the validator and it came up with tons of
"non-SGML character".

At least the few errors I have are easily corrected.

Quite true, and with just a little effort, you could make that into
premier page. The data is there, its plentiful and similar, so the only
real options are the window-dressing.

 

[richard]

Congrats. That's about the biggest table I ever saw.

But...Oh My GAWD! No doctype! How depressing - for the world in general but
particularly this newsgroup. Now I think I will go and take a shit.

Take my shit,please. I don't need it.

 

[Andy Dingley]

If ya think that's bad, try the original site I got the info from.
There was all kinds of useless coding crap that I had to strip from
it.

Somehow we just know that you did that all by hand too, not by writing
a Perl one-liner or anything sensible.

 

[richard]

Somehow we just know that you did that all by hand too, not by writing
a Perl one-liner or anything sensible.

So here's a sample of liberty basic coding I wrote.
This section shows how I stripped the useless crap I had no need of.
If I were to do this by hand, it would have taken me a solid week of
nothing but. This program does it in a few minutes for over 55,000
records.


while arec<rec

arec=arec+1

[loop1]
ptx=0t1=1
while pt1>0
pt1=instr(fx$(arec)," ")
ptx=pt1:nx=6:a$=""
gosub [aloop]

wend

wend

What this does is determines if the string in quotes exists in the
record. If it does, then it is removed and replaced with the variable
a$.

IOW, "find and replace".

I am trying to work out a simpler and perhaps quicker method so that I
can replace any &# character set as found in the record.

 

[richard]

OK, You've impressed me. You did it the smart way.



The traditional suggestion is to learn a few lines of Perl (this is
literally a one-liner)

However these days I'd suggest Python instead of Perl. Much cleaenr
language. Well worth the effort of learning a tiny amount of it, just
for jobs like this.

I'd use perl/cgi and other server side languages except that I don't
need to be online doing this. I needed a way to do this offline and
this Libby basic fits the bill nicely. Besides already knowing the
language helps.

Carl Grundel, the writer/creator, has also developed a "server"
version which I haven't played with yet. You write the code in your
browser and it does all of the html tags so that you can that easily
repeat stuff as necessary.

 

[Andy Dingley]

I'd use perl/cgi and other server side languages except that I don't
need to be online doing this.

Of course you don't - but Perl began life as a command-line language
for jobs like this, and still works fine for it.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Of course you don't - but Perl began life as a command-line language
for jobs like this, and still works fine for it.

http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/index.mhtml
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