Comments | lj_nifty: Friends Groups analyzer

vanbeast in lj_nifty

Friends Groups analyzer

Feb 22, 2006 20:01

For about 8 months, I've had this little script laying around, but I just now got 'round to fixing it up and making it suitable for public consumption. About 8 months ago, I had a need (long since forgotten) to figure out which posts I had posted using which friends groups. There's no easy way to do this when you have well over a thousand entries ( Read more... )

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mpnolan February 24 2006, 18:20:42 UTC

I believe there's a program to package up a Perl program + modules into a .exe.

vanbeast February 24 2006, 18:28:45 UTC

I've seen perl2exe from Indigo Star, but didn't have a ton of luck when I tried it last. Next time I'm by my windows machine I'll give it another shot.

vanbeast February 24 2006, 19:13:24 UTC

Problem is that some of the required modules are not available via ActiveState's ppm for windows and I can't find any info on google about them. GDBM_File to be specific. It's base on unix systems but not included in ActiveState's windows perl.

GDBM_File & ActiveState Perl jin_n_juice April 4 2007, 15:38:44 UTC

more than a year late but thought I'd drop you a comment on this anyway. I was just trying to run jbackup.pl and ran into this problem on Win32.

You might want to know that you can get GDBM_File for Win32 using PPM at:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/kipp/perl/packages/5.8/

wetnun February 25 2006, 02:46:56 UTC

Could always create a quick form with like 3 dropdowns. You know, like:

What is your quest:
What is your favorite color:
How do you intiate an object in Perl:
or
What does "$word =~s#(^.)(.*)#$2$1ay#gi;" do:

That should weed out a lot of people. :)

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vanbeast February 26 2006, 18:39:49 UTC

oops, my mistake. Looks like perl is installed fine but you need to install the GDBM_File module. I can walk you through that if you don't know how :)

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vanbeast February 28 2006, 06:47:12 UTC

Hrm. I thought this would be easy... but it's not.

GDBM_File is part of the standard Perl distribution. Why it's not in OSX is a mystery to me and I can't find much info on Google. It'd be possible to do a manual installation (ie, not from CPAN) but I don't really know how.

I looked on Apple's developer site but found little info. I honestly don't know what to say at this point. I'm going to look into adapting jbackup.pl to use a more common database backend, but for now there's nothing I can do.

Sorry.

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angrykeyboarder March 9 2006, 13:42:02 UTC

OK, so I got a list as you've described. Now what. Each link is a random post. What am I missing?

vanbeast March 9 2006, 15:37:52 UTC

What do you mean "now what"? The list shows you your friends groups, and the posts in each section shows you which posts are in that group.

angrykeyboarder March 9 2006, 19:14:50 UTC

Then I only got a minute fraction of my friends groups and the posts in each. I guess that's what confused me. I basically ended up with incomplete data.

vanbeast March 9 2006, 22:11:45 UTC

How many friends groups do you have? How many were displayed? Are you sure that the groups that weren't displayed have posts in them?

Try invoking it thusly:

./ljgroupanalyze.pl -j angrykeyboarder -e

That should show you all groups regardless of whether or not they have posts in them. If you can confirm that there is a post that belongs to a friends group but doesn't show up that way, then we've got a problem and we can take it from there.

Thanks for checking it out, I want to make it work as best I can.