=pod =for advent_year 2010 =for advent_day 06 =for advent_title Spreading Christmas Cheer =for advent_author Jerrad Pierce =begin eds Although we mentioned them last year, many people have overlooked our links to other advent calendars past and present, so they are tacked to the wall on the A<../#xref|front page>. =end eds As we noted yesterday Santa loves FLOSS, so he uses ODF where possible, but unfortunately some of his contractors and suppliers flirt with getting themselves on the naughty list and send or request icky, undocumented binary format files. Consequently, Glugg's even been able to convert some of the accountants to Perl with M, a tool for spreadsheet-manipulating one-liners. =begin pre # Find out who is naughty % XLSperl -lane '$F{B} !~ "Nice" and print $F{A}' mod6.xls NAME Bobby Adam George Jessica =end pre Presently B<-a>utosplit mode's I<%F> keys are column letters, a debatable improvement over numeric indexes into I<@F>, but hopefully it can eventually keyed by header A. =cut