Re: HTML::Parser fun

This is completely unrelated to your problem, but I thought that I'd offer a style point. Your split's could be replaced by the simpler qw. For example, this:

    $html_parser->report_tags( split '\s+', 'a area meta' );
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could also be coded as:

    $html_parser->report_tags( qw(a area meta) );
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Re^2: HTML::Parser fun by FreakyGreenLeaky (Sexton) on Jun 04, 2008 at 14:13 UTC
Cool! I should remember that. My experience with perl is somewhat lacking. Speaking of which, what's up with the propensity of perl gurus to use qq{} and q{} so much when plain old '' or "" would do?	[reply]
Re^3: HTML::Parser fun by kyle (Abbot) on Jun 04, 2008 at 14:40 UTC
I can't speak for others, but here are a couple of the benefits I see. Less escaping necessary. `q{brace {fun}}` does what I want. I can say `q{"quote" 'fun'}` too. You do need to escape braces in a `q{}` if they're unbalanced, but otherwise it just works. It stands out a little more for small expressions (`q{}` vs `''`). Even if I don't have to escape anything now, I might have to later. If I code with `q{}` today, it saves me having to change to it later. Likewise, it's easier to go from `q{}` to `qq{}` than it is to go from `''` to `""` if my interpolation behavior needs to change.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: HTML::Parser fun by FreakyGreenLeaky (Sexton) on Jun 04, 2008 at 14:50 UTC
OK - I understand. Something akin to the philosophy of always including a dangling comma in a list declaration - easy to add elements later without error, etc.	[reply]
Re^3: HTML::Parser fun by hilitai (Monk) on Jun 04, 2008 at 14:31 UTC
...what's up with the propensity of perl gurus to use qq{} and q{} so much when plain old '' or "" would do? ~~I think it's mainly a scaling thing – unless your list contains only one or two items, qq{} will save your fingers a bunch of trips to the [Shift] and ['] keys.~~ Sorry, misread the question in my haste. Please disregard.	[reply]
Re^2: HTML::Parser fun by FreakyGreenLeaky (Sexton) on Jun 17, 2008 at 15:53 UTC
I just recalled: the split is a leftover from the origional code which reads something like: `# this is actually read in from a conf file $conf{tags} = 'a area meta';` [download] with subsequent use as: `$html_parser->report_tags( split '\s+', $conf{tags});` [download] qw// doesn't allow variable interpolation, is there an alternative syntax to using split to get the list?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: HTML::Parser fun by Anonymous Monk on Jun 18, 2008 at 10:13 UTC
`$conf{tags} = [ qw'a area meta ' ]; ...report_tags( @{ $conf{tags} } );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]