Re: [Slashcode-development] sig_prefix

[Ask S. G. <cl...@sl...>]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:59:47 -0800, Dave Krieger said:

> On the subject of "Re: [Slashcode-development] sig_prefix", you wrote:
>  >It's something I had added when I was working comments.pl -- It's a planned
>  >addition that I didn't finish since there was talk of re-writing the code and
>  >it would help with external scripts like the .shtml -> database routine I wrote
>  >a while back (which will also need to be updated for Bender). 
>  
>  Where can I get a hold of that routine (the pre-Bender version)?  A number of stories
>on Nanodot got archived before I knew that feature existed; I'd like to bring 'em back
>to life if possible.

It's designed expressly for Slashdot, however if you want I can grab the
articles and try to parse them out and give you the resulting code.

>  I looked around in both the Bender and pre-Bender distributions ("utils" etc.), but
>didn't find anything that looked likely.

Well, considering that it's more a Slashdot-util (as opposed to a Slashcode
util) it's not in the repository. It relies on precise regular expressions to
extract the comment data and these can change dramatically between sites.

I may adopt it for a more general purpose utility when I update it for Bender.

>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  Dave
>