This one is for unix peeps or Windows people trying to be cool by having
PERL installed. As noted in the comments, this would be best as a javascript program but I started in PERL so I finished in PERL.
This simply takes your /sbbs/data/sbbslist.json file and parses it through
a bunch of regular expressions to try and neat and tidy the thing up a bit.
A few things it'll do is fix mis-spelled named, abbreviate states so they're
2 letter uppercase, similar with Canadian provinces and it'll add Canada so
not to confuse the country code CA with state abb. CA. It'll remove double, leading, and trailing spaces and a few other things. It's a pretty simple
flow for anyone who would like to have their sbbslist.json in a certain
format.
You can get it from
http://www.endofthelinebbs.com/fixsbbslist.pl.txt
download and rename to fixsbbslist.pl or whatever you like and stick
it somewhere. I created /sbbs/bin and added that to my $PATH in the
.profile
Included are instructions for adding it as a timed event but keep
in mind there's no locking because I'm lazy and I like to take
changes.
Anyway, enjoy and let me know if you find it useful.
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