I'm already grouping subs by functionality. This is literally a cluster of 150 subs with related functionality - the rest of the program is elsewhere :/

To expand a little on how this particular project is merrily spiraling out of control:

Project is text extraction from a print-ready format never meant to be used as a text source, parsing the natural-language text out of known tables to XML, and finally burping up reformatted text via FO.

Client initially indicated they didn't have that many uniquely-presenting tables to rip out. Client provided samples (in PDF, not the production format) for our assessment that were consistent with this claim. We received samples in the production format and found a rather hairier situation. But nobody Upstairs is changing deadlines :/ Since the client apparently can't count, the "solution" is that they're now regularly sending us more samples, where we find more types of tables and have to shove more items onto the match-text-goto-handling-sub hash, even as we're trying to do everything else.

The team IDing new sections and match regexes are batch-generating skeletons of the relevant parts of the code via a couple of algorithms, which I then get to put into my module and flesh out. The last thing anyone's really been concerned about is alphabetizing the "handle text in table format XYZ" subs. I don't think I can justify to my boss taking half an hour or so out to reorganize the ones we have just because it annoys me, and frankly that's more boring than I find it irritating. If I'm going to do it on my own time, I'd rather write script than cut and paste code. :)

In reply to Re^2: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by Syndaryl
in thread Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by Syndaryl

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