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Outline

1. Name
2. Synopsis
3. Description
4. Options
5. Arguments
6. Script Layout
7. See Also
8. Known Bugs
9. Author
10. Copyright and License
11. Source Code

Name

hpl2txt.pl - Makes tab-delimited text-file (.txt) from stage analysis location file (.hpl).

Synopsis

hpl2txt.pl [-vb|--verbose -B[txt] filename -i|-inter|--interactive] [hplfilename]
hpl2txt.pl
hpl2txt.pl hplfilename
hpl2txt.pl --help produces this message
hpl2txt.pl --help -v produces a longer help message
hpl2txt.pl -txt filename places the .txt file in the user-specified location
hpl2txt.pl -i uses the most recent .hpl file, and puts a .txt file in the same directory as it

Description

This makes a tab-delimited text-file (.txt) from an IMS-1270 stage analysis file (.hpl). It sorts analysis by the order they are in the .hpl file and outputs comment, x-coordinate, and y-coordinate.

Options

• -v|vb|verbose Runs in verbose mode (this provides some useful debugging info).
• -help Shows execution options.
• -txt filename This sets the text-filename with (.txt) filename. If this is not set, by default the filename is the same except .hpl is replaced by .txt .
• -i|inter|interactive This sets the output filename without consulting the user. If this is not set, the user is asked to decide before proceeding.
• Defaults: Not verbose.

Arguments

This program currently expects either one argument (a stage analysis file .hpl) or no arguments. If given no arguments it will find the most recent .hpl file and run on that file.

Script Layout

This program currently has several parts:

• Find Most Recent .hpl File If there is not a filename given for an existing file with non-zero size, then this code looks through the program's current directory (and any sub-directories) for .hpl files. It then looks at their modification times, and selects the most recent file (which is probably the one that you just saved).
• Read .hpl File This reads and parses the existing IMS-1270 stage analysis file (.hpl).
• Prompt User for .txt filename This part of the code checks to make certain that there is a .txt filename and that it can be written to, and prompts the user to enter in a filename that will do that. The program will not progress until those two things have occurred.
• Save New .txt File This prints out the new .txt file with everything in the correct order.

See Also

perlpod, http://www.perl.org, http://www.gnu.org, svg2hpl.pl, txt2hpl.pl

Known Bugs

No known bugs.

Author

Miles McCammon, <miles86@ucla.edu>

Copyright and License

hpl2txt.pl - Makes tab-delimited text-file (.txt) from stage analysis location file (.hpl). Copyright © 2008 SIMS Lab, University of California Los Angeles; University of California Regents This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. To receive a copy of the GNU General Public License, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Source Code

Source code for this version (11/6/08, 20:43) can be downloaded here.