I read a lot of files of very raw textual data and if the parsed data tastes good, it gets stored in a DB for analysis, if not, kicked out as error.
Its going to be fun watching people who do used the POSIX functions try alternatives. /[A-Za-z]/, I'd like you to meet umlat-u. The POSIX depended on the locale of the installed software which, assuming that's a feature and not a bug (usually its a bug) it'll be interesting to watch people reimplement that "functionality".
This is a fun 13 year old place to start WRT "simple" data verification, not because it exhaustively covers everything, but its watching a noob start from the beginning and hit about ten different roadblocks. There are plenty more of course.
Its going to be fun watching people who do used the POSIX functions try alternatives. /[A-Za-z]/, I'd like you to meet umlat-u. The POSIX depended on the locale of the installed software which, assuming that's a feature and not a bug (usually its a bug) it'll be interesting to watch people reimplement that "functionality".
This is a fun 13 year old place to start WRT "simple" data verification, not because it exhaustively covers everything, but its watching a noob start from the beginning and hit about ten different roadblocks. There are plenty more of course.
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=66320