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Perl Weekly Challenge 21 15 August 2019

I've been doing the Perl Weekly Challenges. This one dealt with e, and URLs again.

The first challenge was to calculate e. There's a well-known expansion, so I used it.

use Math::BigFloat try => 'GMP';

my $a=0;
my $b=Math::BigFloat->new(1);
my $e=Math::BigFloat->new(1);

while (1) {
  $a++;
  $b/=$a;
  $e+=$b;
  print "$e\n";
}

Perl6 has arbitrary precision built in, with a ratio type to retain precision when the numerator and denominator become too different:

my $a=0;
my $b=FatRat.new(1,1);
my $e=Rat.new(1);

while (1) {
  $a++;
  $b/=$a;
  $e+=$b;
  print "$e\n";
}

I note that it runs distinctly more slowly than the Perl5 version, not surprising since it's not using the ferociously-optimised GMP library.

The other challenge was to apply URI canonicalisation, which meant revisiting challenge 17 (and slightly improving the parsing code there). I didn't have time to Perl-6-ify this one. I still haven't found a formal definition of what makes a valid URI and what doesn't; hey ho.

my $u=urlparse($url);

I wasn't going to write my own un-escaper, so:

use URI::Escape;
foreach my $mode (keys %{$u}) {
  if (exists $u->{$mode}) {
    $u->{$mode}=uri_unescape($u->{$mode});
  }
}

Make scheme and host lower case.

foreach my $mode (qw(scheme host)) {
  if (exists $u->{$mode}) {
    $u->{$mode}=lc($u->{$mode});
  }
}

Remove default ports (I'm sure this isn't the full set, but the first two cover the vast majority of ports in URIs anyway, and don't ask me how ftp on non-standard ports works because I don't know and don't care).

if (exists $u->{port} && exists $u->{scheme}) {
  if (my $dp={http => 80,
              https => 443,
              ftp => 21,
              smtp => 25,
              telnet => 22,
              ldap => 389,
              ldaps => 686,
            }->{$u->{scheme}}) {
    if ($dp==$u->{port}) {
      delete $u->{port};
    }
  }
}
print urlassemble($u),"\n";

The parser has had some minor upgrades.

sub urlparse {
  my ($url)=@_;
  my %match;
  if ($url =~ m!//!) {
    $url =~ m!^(?<scheme>.*?)://(?:(?:(?<userinfo>.*)@)?(?<host>[-._a-z0-9]+)(?::(?<port>[0-9]+))?)?(?<pqf>.*)!i;
    map {$match{$_}=$+{$_}} keys %+;
  } else { # if no userinfo-host-port component, split on the last colon
    $url =~ m!^(?<scheme>.*):(?<pqf>[^:]*)!;
    map {$match{$_}=$+{$_}} keys %+;
  }
  $match{pqf} =~ m!(?<path>[^?#]*)(?:\?(?<query>[^#]*))?(?:\#(?<fragment>.*))?$!;
  map {$match{$_}=$+{$_}} keys %+;
  delete $match{pqf};
  return \%match;
}

And the assembler simply puts the relevant punctuation back in.

sub urlassemble {
  my $u=shift;
  my $out=$u->{scheme}.':';
  if (exists $u->{host}) {
    $out.='//';
    if (exists $u->{userinfo}) {
      $out.=$u->{userinfo}.'@';
    }
    $out.=$u->{host};
    if (exists $u->{port}) {
      $out.=':'.$u->{port};
    }
  }
  $out.=$u->{path};
  if (exists $u->{query}) {
    $out.='?'.$u->{query};
  }
  if (exists $u->{fragment}) {
    $out.='#'.$u->{fragment};
  }
  return $out;
}

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