cmille has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

For my first project in perl, I'm trying to write a text-rpm that is similar to zork and other old infocom games. I figured it would be a good way to learn perl's regex system, but anyways. I'm having to package all of the rooms in a text file, and I was wondering what would be a good way to format this file so that it would be easy for other users to create and would be easily parsed into my script.

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Re: formatting text for parsing
by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 10, 2002 at 18:38 UTC
    For reference you might find Games::Rezrov/Games::Rezrov enlightening, it's (<retracted>London.pm's</retracted>) <insert>a parser for</insert> Infocom package.

    As for the storage my hunch would be CSV(either Text::CSV or DBD::CSV) or XML (XML::Simple). Though implying and not having said create by hand ;-) I'll also toss out Storable/FreezeThaw.

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    perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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      Firstly, I don't think that Games::Rezrov is London.pm's ;-} Not that we haven't collectively written some pretty mad stuff over the years ;-}

      Secondly the module reads yer actual Infocom Z-Code so you can play all of your favourite games from the past like Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy on so forth.

      /J\

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        Doh! I think it's somebody's though, Belfast.pm? As for reading yes, that would be why I said "for reference purposes", and said "As for storage" in the second paragraph ;-D.

        UPDATE: Helas my Bureaucracy and Hitchiker's Guide for Apple II wetn the way of curbside checkout long ago :-(. I was never able to get past the bulldozer.

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        perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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