#!/bin/perl
# triviat.pl --> fixed version of an older version of triviat.pl,
# which uses correct
# directories for the contest files,
# and uses a more robust way of gathering the
# filenames of contestants (the glob construct
# reached its limits and is now replaced by a
# more complex, more robust, readdir routine).
$date = `/bin/date`;
@date = split(/ +/,$date); # note the + after the space delimiter
# with a single-digit day, UNIX prints Fri Dec 1 10:43:57 CST 1995
# which has an extra space in front of the day. That would create
# an empty field unless multiple consecutive delimitors were treated
# as one
# note that the elements of @date are:
# 0. Day of Week (ie Wed)
# 1. Month (ie Nov)
# 2. Number of day (ie 29)
# 3. Time (ie 11:50:01)
# 4. Time Zone (ie EST)
# 5. Year (ie 1995)
$qnum = $date[2];
$month = "Jan";
$displaydate = "$date[2] $date[1] $date[5]";
print <<"EndPrn";
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Trivia Game Top Players
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Top 10 players win this month's
prize. In the event of a tie for 10th place, the winner will
be decided by a trivia question sent by e-mail.
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# The 8 lines o' code below are a more robust way of
# dealing with every file in a directory. Beware
# that all names of files in the contest directory
# are loaded into memory when they are loaded into
# the array @tfilelst. If this ever craps out,
# you will have to read all of the filenames into
# a text file, a name to a line, and then read
# the filenames in from that text file and act
# upon each one. This, in essence, uses the more
# copious (but slower) space on your hard disk,
# instead of the smaller (but faster) amount of
# RAM available to the Perl script
opendir(TRIVDIR,"../data/nmc/nmctrivia/$month") || die "can't open dir $month";
$z = 0;
while ($tfile = readdir(TRIVDIR)) {
$tfilelst[$z] = $tfile;
++$z;
}
closedir(TRIVDIR);
# in the old days, the line below replaced the 9 lines above
# foreach $file (<../data/nmc/nmctrivia/$month/*>) {
foreach $file (@tfilelst) {
open(EFILE,"../data/nmc/nmctrivia/$month/$file") || die "Cannot read $file";
$inline = ;
close(EFILE);
@inarray = split(/#/,$inline);
$count = 0;
foreach $slot (@inarray) {
if ($slot eq "r") {
++$count;
}
}
$email = $inarray[0];
if ($players[$count]) {
$players[$count] = "$players[$count]
\n$email";
} else {
$players[$count] = $email;
}
}
$rcount = 32;
until ($rcount == 0) {
--$rcount;
if ($players[$rcount]) {
if ($rcount == 1) {
print "Players with $rcount correct answer
\n";
print "$players[$rcount]
\n";
} elsif ($rcount != 0) {
print "Players with $rcount correct answers
\n";
print "$players[$rcount]
\n";
}
}
}
print <<"EndPrnTwo";
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