[Gllug] Command line tool to find video dimensions?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sat Jun 2 17:42:48 UTC 2007


On 1 Jun 2007, salsaman at xs4all.nl outgrape:
> Thanks for the tips ! Unfortunately my knowledge of perl has been gathered
> mostly from online tutorials.

They're very bad ones. Get the Camel Book and read it (it's actually
quite a fun read, even if the language it describes varies between nasty
and vile).

> It's nice to know pipes are supported natively !

*Everything*, pretty much, is supported natively.

If you find yourself using system() in perl, you are almost certainly
making a mistake. What with open, IPC::Run, and XS, you pretty much
never need it.

Oh, and it's worth hitting CPAN whenever you think Perl should be able
to do something but can't: the likelihood is that someone else has
already made it do whatever-it-is.

-- 
`On a scale of one to ten of usefulness, BBC BASIC was several points ahead
 of the competition, scoring a relatively respectable zero.' --- Peter Corlett
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