Practical Extraction with Perl 6

Presented by Nathan Gray

Abstract

With Perl 5 extracting data from semi-structured content required many regular expressions and lots of glue. Perl 6 has introduced (or stolen) the ability to specify multiple regexes within a package called a grammar. Additionally, transformations can be made on the regex match object before it is returned, allowing amazing flexibility and customization.

We will examine a simple document, such as a conference schedule, and extract interesting information, placing the extracted data in a structured document, such as YAML.

Details

Time: 3:00 PM
Length: 45 minutes
Room: Socialtext