Computers on pinakidion

Speaking of Code

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’m learning awk. I know, I know, perl can do all the text extraction stuff, it’s better, it’s the 800 pound gorilla of text processing languages.

But I understand awk better, I guess it’s just me.

Basically, along the lines of the football stuff I mentioned earlier, I have a program that generates entire seasons of football games. The player information and team information is pretty detailed. It takes some time to create a team, but only about 25 seconds to generate an entire season. Considering that I’m rewriting history from 1985, that’s 21 seasons in the fall league and the spring league, as well as some college stuff. Why? History, especially alternate history, has to be self-consistent. If I start talking about a USFL Hall of Fame in Trenton and the ongoing battle with the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, I need to have players and player stats to write a convincing story.

Anyway, the issue I had was taking the stats of a given game in my alternate reality seasons and putting them in a database.

The guy who wrote the computer game (GPL of course) tried to write a perl script, but it doesn’t work. I tried to fix it, but it was quite difficult as it takes me a while to translate English to perl search routines.

So, I figure, I can deal with a two step process of extracting data into comma separated files and loading a database from those files. So far, I can extract many of the statistics pretty well, but there’s more to do. It sounds like a lot of work, but really, all I’ve had to do is figure out how to create teams from statistics and now run data extraction scripts to place new stats into a database. The hardest part was giving up on perl, for now.

So, yes, I am using a program originally written when I was 6.

Here is an example output of a game: (It’s really long)

Smarter than Me

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Computer Stuff

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Upcoming Wednesday

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Exciting News

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Enjoying Work

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Goomours

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Google Reference

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

New Browser

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Coolest Radio Ever

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Update on Computer Business

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

New UFE in Windows Longhorn

Mon, 09 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Whatever Happened to Cobind?

Tue, 03 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Blacklist updated again

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Blacklist2 updated

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Church Website and Day 1

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000

I do not like Bad Links and Spam

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Adventures in Gentoo pt.2

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Gentoo Issue

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000

A system emerges

Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Contigo Linux

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Great Linux Project - File Manager

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Is Newer Always Better?

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Clerry Computers

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000

So I started looking at components

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000