[NTLUG:Discuss] Find Files NOT containting 'string'

[Victor Brilon]

Use the Perl DBD/DBI and HTML::Parser modules and this won't be that 
hard to do.

Victor

Stuart Johnston wrote:
> Robert Citek wrote:
> 
>>
>> At 11:16 AM 11/7/2003 -0600, Stuart Johnston wrote:
>>
>>> What I really need is to find all html input tags whose maxlength 
>>> fields don't match up with the corresponding database column.  Extra 
>>> Credit anyone?  :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Rather than tell us what you are trying to do, can you show us with 
>> examples?
> 
> 
> Ok, I would have two sets of input files:
> 
> An html file that contains things like:
> 
> <input name="name" type="text"
>  value="<%=$fields{name}%>" size="30" maxlength="100">
> <input name="description" type="text"
>  value="<%=$fields{description}%>" size="30">
> 
> And a database definition file that looks like:
> 
> CREATE TABLE "groups" (
>     "g_id" SERIAL,
>     "name" character varying(50) NOT NULL,
>     "description" text,
> );
> 
> The more I write this out, the more complicated it becomes but anway. 
> The maxlength of the 'name' field in html is 100 but it is 50 in the 
> database - this is bad.  The 'description' field has no maxlength 
> setting in the html but that is ok because it is of type 'text' in the 
> database.  However, there may be some html fields missing maxlengths 
> that do need them.  Also, I have several (well, hundreds) html files and 
> several different database tables with no easy way to link them together.
> 
> In other words, I will probably have to do this mostly by hand or find 
> another solution.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Stuart Johnston
> 
> 
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