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    Perl-based bulk set IDer... —Micah Jaffe
   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)
   
        Re: Perl-based bulk set IDer... —Todd Lehman
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Perl-based bulk set IDer... —Tim Rueger
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Perl-based bulk set IDer... —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: Perl-based bulk set IDer... —Jacob Sparre Andersen
   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)
   
        Re: Perl-based bulk set IDer... —Todd Lehman
   (...) 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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