On Jul 29, Paul Tremblay said:
>On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:07:05PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Would you make a distinction between parsing and munging? For example,
>if you wrote a script to convert Word RTF to XML, is that parsing or is
>that still munging?
I'd call parsing the extraction stage, and munging the overall process of
transformation.
But I'd probably use "parse" and "munge" interchangeably.
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