st: Re: maintaining the user site

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Friday, October 18, 2002 2:33 -0400 Roger wrote:

> The specific application that got me thinking along these lines was
> website  maintenance. In my website (under construction at
> http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/   ), I have multiple .htm files,
> .toc files,  .pkg files, .zip files, .ado files and .do files. When I add
> packages to my website, I run a Stata program that reads all the .pkg
> files, collects the title line in each one, and generates lists of
> packages  in the .toc files and in tables in the .htm files. A package
> such as  - -intext- would make it easier to add further bells and
> whistles. However,  there are probably many other file-bashing
> applications where this approach  would be less bother, and more
> reliable, than a mixture of manual text  editing and DOS scripts.
One word of advice: perl.

It works for me (and since Alan Riley's improvement of one of the key 
scripts, it works even better now!)

Trivially simple to handle the files in a directory and generate the sort 
of thing you describe in perl. (Yes, probably can do it in python, too...)

Kit

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