From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <perl@shiar.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 07:00:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: countries: preliminary script to recreate include
X-Git-Tag: v1.6~56
X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.nl/sheet.git/commitdiff_plain/de20cc04f999154e97f8f0d041f536f048aed256

countries: preliminary script to recreate include

Parse Wikipedia page to compare output to current data.
Lacks insular and reserved codes.
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diff --git a/tools/mkcountries-wikipedia b/tools/mkcountries-wikipedia
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..67916dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/mkcountries-wikipedia
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use 5.012;
+use warnings;
+
+my %cc;  # map of country code to info array
+
+while (<>) {
+	/<pre>/ .. /<\/pre>/ or next;  # data is in preformatted block
+	m{
+		\A (?<continent> [A-Z]{2})
+		\h (?<codea2> [A-Z]{2})
+		\h \S* \h \d*  # skip other iso codes
+		\h (?<name> .+)
+	}x or next;
+	$cc{ lc $+{codea2} } = [ $+{name}, "c-\L$+{continent}" ];
+}
+
+use Data::Dump 'dd';
+$Data::Dump::INDENT = '';
+dd \%cc;
+
+__END__
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+mkcountryinfo - Create Perl include of country info from Wikipedia page
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+	curl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_continent_%28data_file%29 |
+	tools/mkcountryinfo > countries.inc.pl
+