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Tk804 and TableMatrix 1.2 Works!

Tk804 and TableMatrix 1.2 Works!

To celebrate I decided it was time for a new perl image.

I listened to John?Cerney and I went to the Univ of Winnipeg repository and downloaded Tk804.026 and TableMatrix 1.2 and it works perfectly. I am still running perl 5.8.3 because I saw no need to tempt fate with another update that could cause a different error.

I think the solution is that the Univ of Winnipeg site compiled TableMatrix 1.2 with Tk804, so you should only need to download TableMatrix but I got Tk804 from them as weel just to be sure. Hopefully this will solve other people problems out there.

Perl ID3::Tag and Errors with Cover Art

Perl ID3::Tag and Errors with Cover Art

First off let me apologize for the stupid graphic on this post. I was getting a little lazy.

Now my question is for anyone who has used the MP3::Tag module on ID3v2 tags. At the moment when I use the module to edit a ID3v2 tag with an embedded cover art image I end up with a corrupt tag. I have not further diagnosed to see what version of ID3v2 it actually is. ID3v2 does have the ability to read these coverart frames so I am confused why this causes an error.

I have searched and found nothing, so if anyone knows the answer why this happens I would appreciate it.

Perl Tk TableMatrix Widget Help

Perl Tk TableMatrix Widget Help

I was told that perl/tk is a nice perl gui but is very badly documented. Well I can confirm I was told correctly.

Most recently I had some trouble with Tk:TableMatrix which is very poorly documented. The biggest annoyance I had was that TableMatrix is not compatible with ActivePerl 811 the most recent version. I found on a non english site that TableMatrix is compatible with 809. And I found that answer after a few hours of trying to figure out why my script would not run.

I also found out that when the documentation says to pass 4 values to -bd to describe {left right top bottom} border they really mean a refence to an array with four variables.

So I hope the posting of the following code will help others with TableMatrix.

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Perl Text Comparison/Similarity Final

Perl Text Comparison/Similarity Final

I have received a couple of suggestions via email in regards to how best compare two text strings. In my most recent post I discussed a the String::Compare module. Since then I have found some additional modules that do similar things.

I did my own personal test and review of each of the following modules and a few additional concepts. Some of the included modules are: String::Similarity, Text::Levenshtein , String::Approx, Text::Similarity, Algorithm::HowSimilar, Compressed file concept.?

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