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quidity has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was trying to fight spam this holiday and ended up doing it by creating regular expressions with a genetic twist. Being the kind sort that I am I've abstracted a little and produced a base class for anyone who might want to do something simillar. Enter Genetics::Gene::Sequence from the wings.

This won't do anything for you, not yet, to be useful you need to override a couple of methods, but that's hopefully explained in the pod.

But why seek wisdom? If anyone has the time, I'd appreciate feedback, is the interface good? Have I missed some sensible method? Whatever. The module is available at This link and has some simple examples of its use included. I intend to CPAN this in a little while, as there isn't anything simillar.

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Feedback: Genetics::Gene::Sequence v0.11
by quidity (Pilgrim) on Dec 29, 2000 at 02:51 UTC

    After a bit of feedback I've added some stuff and improved the docs, available here. I've checked that this unzips.

Re: Feedback: Genetics::Gene::Sequence v0.10
by InfiniteSilence (Curate) on Dec 28, 2000 at 20:43 UTC
    I'm on ActivePerl on a Win2000 box. I tried your link and it successfully downloaded the tar file, but I cannot open it with WinZip. I have opened .tars before with Winzip (recently Sequin0.3). Any idea why it won't open?

    Celebrate Intellectual Diversity

      Try something like PowerArchiver (which I like very much for ungzipping and untarring), which I believe can be had for free from places like www.shareware.com or www.tucows.com.