Once again, apologies for the delay in getting the script available! introduction At Huddersfield, we've recently gone live with a bespoke Perl script for generating pre-overdue emails: advanceNotices.pl settings.ini To run the script, use the following command: perl advanceNotices.pl settings.ini You can use multiple settings files and then just tell the script which settings to [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2005’
Horizon "reconst" in Perl
Apologies to everyone who was interested in this for the delay in getting it posted! The Horizon database stores several fields (e.g. title, author, etc) in the format "processed" / "reconst", where the "processed" column contains the text stripped of punctuation and the indefinite/definite article, and "reconst" contains the stripped characters. For example, the title [...]
Been way too busy!
No posts for ages because I've been too busy at work getting things ready for the start of term – we're launching out new MetaLib service on Monday. Hopefully things will start to calm down after that! Anyway, just found this on my hard drive – unfortunately I don't know who created it, but I'm [...]