The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "Perl program" ...
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Programming: Learn the basic lingo and gain new powers
DeBarros talks about basic programming skills that will unleash a wealth of potential for reporters. He defines a number of programming languages and explains the application of each.
Tags: programming; computer language; C#; JavaScript; Perl; PHP; Python; Ruby; SQL
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Programming skills: An introduction to Perl and regular expressions
Perry's PowerPoint covers Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language. With a disclaimer that you can't learn Perl in an hour, Perry's presentation aims to provide: a basic understand of the philosophy behind Perl; introduction to Perl syntax; introduction tp basic regular expression syntax; common Perl idioms; common errors; and a list of where to find help.
Tags: Perl; syntax; Practical Extraction and Report Language; UNIX; regular expressions; parsing data;
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Web Scraping: Techniques and Challenges
Johnson discusses how to use Perl to scrape websites for data so you aren't stuck with a tedious cutting and pasting job whenever you look for new data online. She offers examples of scripts that she wrote for this purpose.
Tags: programming language; Perl; data extraction; scripts; computer programing
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Snake Charming: A journalist introduction to Python programming
This tipsheet offers a very comprehensive overview of Python, a free scripting language. Nixon explains how it can be helpful to clean data and build simple programs and then gives specific details about how to use it.
Tags: programming; computer language
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Mining the Wb for Data, Part II
How to write a Perl program to scrape data from the web. Takes you through writing the program, creating a browser, creating a directory to save your downloaded files, and saving data in a format which can be imported into a database.
Tags: Perl program; creating a browser; downloading data from the web; databases
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Getting Started with Perl
This tipsheet provides a list of websites that host tutorials for learning PERL programming.
Tags: CAR