Okay...yer starting to scare me...

Post #50,267 by Simon_Jester 8/23/02 9:51:03 AM Reply	Okay...yer starting to scare me... I understand your point. This post is 197 characters, 26 words. This scares me....I have visions of you counting every character. (I could deal with that.) But something tells me you didn't....that you either had (or wrote) a perl script specifically to count the number of characters in that post. (Twitch)
Post #50,269 by ben_tilly 8/23/02 9:59:19 AM Reply	What I assumed... is that he just used wc. But he couldn't have, because he got the count of letters wrong Cutting and pasting his text I get 191. If I view source to include the link I get 253? Ah, got it. He just included the text without the link and he included the 6 double-spaces (omitted in HTML) after periods that he types by habit. I have the same habit, even though it is a useless thing to do in a web environment. Cheers, Ben Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Post #50,288 by Simon_Jester 8/23/02 12:07:05 PM Reply	Okay ben... now YOUR starting to scare me. :-)
Post #50,305 by ben_tilly 8/23/02 2:05:49 PM Reply	All that it means... Is that Karsten and I have spent too much time grepping through logs. You tend to do that with grep foo biglog \| grep -v bar \| grep -v baz \| ... ever lengthening the chain, with occasional iterations with wc at the end to see how much farther you have to go to filter it down to a reasonable output to handle manually. shrug Ben PS How much longer will we keep up the ... in the title? :-) Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Post #50,310 by Simon_Jester 8/23/02 3:32:41 PM Reply	Nod Usually I'm doing wc -l rather than straight wc's. (I forgot the basic nature of wc). Still...while it would be possible to grab the post and work with it (either via cut and paste or other means), and then cat the file, I think it was technical analysis of the number of characters and correction of counts. I can whip up Perl scripts and the like but generally take a more relaxed approach when posting here. I don't count the character when I write something up. I really try not to think about characters in HTML. :-) PS: Ah, we can let the ... drop now I guess. :-)
Post #50,328 by kmself 8/23/02 6:21:31 PM Reply	...nailed... `cat <<EOF \| wc -l paste text, excluding URL, as typed, with additional spaces after periods (so sue me, I learned how to type proper style) EOF` ...which produces the result. That was the easy part. Harder was tightening it down from ~40 words ~300 chars originally. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
Post #50,336 by ben_tilly 8/23/02 7:50:58 PM Reply	I apologize for the length... but I did not have time to make it shorter. :-) - [link\|http://www.xs4all.nl/~radavi/radavi/t-quotes.html\|Blaise Pascal] Cheers, Ben Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Post #50,347 by Silverlock 8/23/02 10:38:27 PM Reply	Excellent link. Re-elect Gore in 2004
Post #50,357 by Arkadiy 8/23/02 11:34:46 PM Reply	Perfect link! (my first ever sig on IWETHEY) We have only 2 things to worry about: That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have.

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