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Hello fellow Lego freaks^H^H^H^H^Hans, (Warning this may appeal to Unix and Perl geeks only...) Not long ago when I was trying in a feverish sort of way to re-establish a Lego collection that I dreamt of as a kid, I put together a Perl script that (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Say, did you know about the "output=plain" option? For example, (URL) a simpler output mode which makes parsing easier, and it's much less bandwidth (about 1/10 the page size). Actually, rather than parsing, it was really created for the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) parser I'd written to "canonicalize" my personal set database. (...) Even better. Will it be eventually tied in with parts inventories, too (I hope I hope)? Also - how frequently are the set lists updated? -Tim (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yea (...) After a half hour has elapsed since the last changepoint. So, on the cosmic scale, fairly instantaneously. --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman: (...) to "text/plain"? (right now it says "text/html") Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I noticed it was wrong and I considered fixing it, but it wasn't a trivial change by any means (in this case). The tool I'm using to spit out pages at that base-URL is hell-bent on spitting out HTML, so I'd have to make a separate parallel (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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