COMP 2400 Software Tools

Goals: Devise a strategy to solve Project 3. Understand

• Reading a large amount of text from a file
• Modify it to include page numbers
  • Create a string out of it after applying chop
  • split the spring into different chapters
  • retrieve the heading, center and print it
  • keep a char counter and print lines
  • keep a line counter and print pages
  • insert a page number and reset all the counters
• Roman Numerals
  • Download and install Roman.pm (copy this file into the directory where your project 2 script is)
  • you include this Perl module by adding 

    use lib ".";
    use Roman;

Useful commands/tips:

• remember to modify the $" variable to a null string, i.e. "" before transforming the file into a single string. 

Useful Links:

• Perl Book 

Handouts:

• Project 3
• input data for Project 3

Online Tutorial:

• Perl introductory tutorial