On Jul 29, James Campbell said:
>Scuse my ignorance (and illiteracy) but what is munging? It seems to
>crop-up occasionally and I have absolutely no clue...
I've got an article in the July "Linux Magazine" ("Hitting the
Motherlode") about regexes (mainly in Perl). In it, I use the term
"munge". FOLDOC[1] says "a derogatory term meaning to imperfectly
transform data", but I don't think it's such a bad term.
For me, munge just means using whatever means necessary to "massage" data
from one format to another -- that might mean extracting stuff, changing
its layout, or transforming it to an entirely different format. And I use
"massage" here, because it's accurate: sometimes, you get a gentle
backrub, and sometimes, you get painful hand-chopping on your spine.
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