User since: Jun 07, 2000 at 15:07 UTC (24 years ago) Last here: Aug 23, 2005 at 11:35 UTC (19 years ago) Experience: 3808 Level: Curate (13) Writeups: 146 Location: Behind the Monolith, Paris, France Aliases: briac, OM@HAL2001 Elvish Sig: <IMG SRC="http://www.pilpre.com/briac/sindarin.gif" ALIGN="middle"><s‎crip‎t type="text/javas‎crip‎t">if(navigator.appVersion.match(/MSIE/)){var XP=document.all.tags("TABLE")[3].all.tags("TABLE")[0].all.tags("TABLE")[0].all.tags("TR")[2].all.tags("TD")[1].all.tags("B")[0];XP.innerText="none";var level=document.all.tags("TABLE")[3].all.tags("TABLE")[0].all.tags("TABLE")[0].all.tags("TR")[3].all.tags("TD")[1].all.tags("B")[0];level.innerText='Grand Inquisitor (-8)'}</s‎crip‎t> Ambigram: <IMG SRC="http://www.pilpre.com/briac/ambigram_sm.gif" ALIGN="middle"> User's localtime: Dec 06, 2024 at 01:50 +01 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

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(Random Lovecraft generator using transcrambler)

My Resume

My resume is available online! Wheee!

Misc. Codes

-----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 0.01                       
P++>+++ c- P6-( ) R++ M++  O++  MA++
E+ PU BD C++ D++ S++ X++  WP+++  MO+
PP n+ CO+ PO->+ o G+  A@  OLC-  OLR+
Ee!> Ev++>+++ uL++ w- m              
------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1                   
GJ/MU/IT  d-(---)  s++:--  a26@
C++(!) UL++  UB  P+++  L++(+++)
E---  W+++$   N+(++)@   o+   K@
w-(---) !O M+ !V PS++ PE(-)  Y+
P++ t 5? X-() R*  !tv  b++(+++)
DI(+)  D---(++)  G e+++ h r++ y+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

PGP Fingerprint:
7102 2748 7A8E A516 CE0E 224E 8513 F800 816A CDA9

Various (useless) code snippets

HTML::Munger example (cf. pikachizer )</p>

[briac@ledzep briac]$perl -MLWP::Simple -MHTML::Munger -e'sub f{$_=
shift;@x=qw(Pii Pi Ka Kaa Chu Chuu);s([a-z]{2})($x[rand @x])eig;
return $_}$u=$ARGV[0];$m=new HTML::Munger;$m->set_munger(\&f);print
$m->munge($u,$u,get($u))' http://www.perlmonks.org > pikamonks.html

ISO-8601 date format (please, use this format!)

perl -e'($d,$m,$y)=(localtime)[3,4,5];printf("%4i-%02d-%02d",$y+1900
,++$m,$d)'

Date::Convert::French_Rev example

perl -MDate::Convert::French_Rev 
-e'@t= localtime;$d=new Date::Convert::Gregorian( ($t[5]+1900),
++$t[4] , $t[3]); convert  Date::Convert::French_Rev $d; print
$d->date_string("%EJ, %e %A %B %EY")'

Autopassword

perl -e '@c=("a".."z","A".."Z",0..9);print join("",@c[map{rand
@c}(1..8)])'

MP3 - Renaming files from IDTags

[briac@ledzep MP3]$ ls | perl -MMP3::Info -e 'while(<>){chomp;
$tag=get_mp3tag($_);rename ($_, join(" - ", $tag->{ARTIST},
$tag->{ALBUM}, sprintf("%02i", $tag->{TRACKNUM}), $tag->{TITLE})
. qq".mp3") or warn $! }'

Retrieve Slashdot posts, raw text
(to be used with Transcrambler)

perl -MHTML::Parser -e'$p=HTML::Parser->new(start_h=>[sub{my($tag,
$attr)=@_;$art=1 if($tag eq "td"&& $attr->{bgcolor} eq "ffffff");},
"tagname, attr"],end_h=>[sub{my($tag)=@_;undef $art if ($art &&
$tag eq "td"},"tagname"],text_h=>[sub{if($art){print shift}},
"dtext"]);$p->parse_file($ARGV[0]);'

Escape '<', '>', '&' characters to entities

[briac@ledzep briac]$ perl -e '$foo="<Foo>&bar</foo>";%e=("<","&lt;"
,">","&gt;","&","&amp;");$foo=~s/([<>&])/$e{$1}/eg;print $foo'

Random w3 specs

• HTML 4.01
• XML 1
• CSS 1
• CSS 2
• XPath
• XSL
• SVG

Monkstats

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• Evil@Chinese
• Devil@Work
• Goofing
• blurry
• devilMonk
• LookingWorried
• ack! $^X

Preview of the upcoming Acme::Translator v2.

Cheesy Webring