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Peter Waszkewitz

For the time being, I will just say that I am an engineer and love to program. I learned programming in Pascal and C, then did a lot of work with perl and over the last three years have grown more and more comfortable in Standard C++ (call it the luck of a late starter: I was thus fortunate enough to learn this language in a very advanced and standardized stage).

Until I find the time -- meaning, probably never -- to put this into some order, here is some source available for download. It has all been created and used on Windows 9x and 2000. I tried to keep it portable but lack of time -- again -- prevented so far the (re-)installation of a Linux system on my home PC and also extensive tests with GCC on the Windows platform. Sorry.

• StdPrintf, an implementation of the ssprintf function using a std::string as target to have a dynamic buffer size available. It is not yet complete for all flags and formatting possibilities but it offers an additional %b format which outputs the bit pattern of an integer value -- very useful when you are working in a field like industrial communication or the like.
• perlcli, yet to be uploaded: a data structure to specify and functios to parse a command line in perl; saved me hours of typing the same constructs over and over in various command line controlled perl programs (perhaps there already is a better solution in the CPAN; this was before I looked there and then I had no need of switching).
• perlrecurse, yet to be uploaded: perl module to scan a directory hierarchy recursively, being able to run callback functions upon entering or leaving a directory and encountering a file. Makes it quite easy to write perl programs that do fairly complicated things with files and folders throughout a directory tree.

Most recent update: 2003-05-07T06:03:00