http://snipplr.com/language/perl/tags/utilities Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:15:56 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3718/how-to-start-cpan-on-windowsactiveperl/ ActivePerl has a great package manager utility -- just type "ppm" at the prompt. The problem is that ActivePerl's PPM points to ActivePerl's package repository, which doesn't contain every module listed on CPAN. The solution is to invoke the cpan utility under windows! Here's how.

]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:23:37 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3718/how-to-start-cpan-on-windowsactiveperl/ http://snipplr.com/view/3129/id3pl/ This script takes a list of directories as its argument. For mp3s that don't have any id3 information, guess the name of the artist and track based on the filename and use the MP3-Info module to insert that guess into the file as id3v1 tags.

]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:40:18 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3129/id3pl/ http://snipplr.com/view/3128/move-mp3s-into-artistalbum-folders/ Given a directory of MP3s, read the ID3 tags and reorganize the directory so that all of the MP3s reside in folders that are nested in the order: Artist/Album/File.mp3

]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:37:20 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3128/move-mp3s-into-artistalbum-folders/ http://snipplr.com/view/3125/wrap-tabdelimited-strings-in-html/ A simple iterator that takes a tab-delimited file as input and prints an HTML document that contains the tabbed data.

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