[thelist] Harvesting tips (reinventing the wheel)

[Daniel J. Cody]

Hey George -

Dean has made the original perl tip harvester available under the GPL
and its available at
http://evolt.org/evolt_source_code/index.html

You should be able to look at how he did things to solve the probs on
your end :)

.djc.

George Dillon <> Evolt! wrote:
> I'm playing with a Perl script to analyse all my saved up evolt mail and
> create my own off-line tip harvest from it (just for personal use).
>
> Simple extraction of tips from messages is not too hard (once I've extracted
> the messages from the OE folders using DBxtract -
> http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/DBXtract.htm ) - the complicated bit is
> what to do with badly formed tips - ones which have nothing more than a tip
> tag... Currently I'm throwing away all tips which have no type="" but I
> intend to build a routine to scan the tips themselves for keywords to make a
> best guess at what the tip is about...
>
> Just wondered if anyone else had done the same and could save me the effort?
>
> Or if anyone would be interested in seeing the same (and vastly improving my
> amateurish code)  when it's done.
>
> HTH
>
> George Dillon
>
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