# Perl - Practical extraction and reporting language
    This is my favorite language for text processing and aion tasks.
    Scripts are easy to understand and can be quickly modified.
    Here you will find several useful script examples created and used daily by me.
    If you use Windows operating system you can install Perl from Activestate
By clicking on the script name it will be displayed in your browser. Copy the text information and paste it in any text editor, then save it under given name with extension *.pl

Run the script from command line e.g.: perl.exe ucalc.pl
Some scripts require additional input argument, such as file-name with input data

ucalc.pl → Advanced command-line Perl calculator. Inspired by a book explaining Perl which I read long time ago.
wave_gen.pl → Waveform generator (sin, cos, triangle, square). Configure points-per-period, number of periods, amplitude. Data can be generated in decimal, hexadecimal or binary format and are copied to clipboard or written to a file.
sota_gpx_conv.pl → Process GPX data of summits downloaded from SOTADATA.org and create new, extended names of summits.
Calling example: perl.exe sota_gpx_conv.pl GPX_file_from_sotadata_org.gpx > NEW_GPX_file.gpx
awards.pl + awards.cfg.txt →
Connect to HAM DX cluster and search for specific pattern (callsign, prefix) in order to filter out information of interest. Configuration data is in awards.cfg If necessary, the script can be run in timed loop, e.g. every 1 minute and in case of succesful match it can beep to notify the user.
I usually run the script with these arguments: perl.exe awards.pl -t 5 -b