From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Laughlin Subject: Re: Announcing Perl module for parsing APRS packets Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:21:31 -0400 Message-ID: <8ea83f4050810092139d7034c@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ea83f405080514263ae2ec3d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Curt Mills, WE7U" Cc: Linux-Hams@vger.kernel.org Hi Curt, Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't aware that it existed. After thwarting a few broken links I did manage to find a copy. It targets perl 4, it's not a module, and it outputs formatted text instead of a data structure, so it doesn't exactly acheive the same goals that I have. However it is GPL'ed which is good, so I may be able to re-use some of it's parsing code without tainting my code. I still have quite a bit left to implement to have a complete implementation. And it will certainly be nice to have another GPL code base to reference other than XASTIR. On 8/10/05, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Jeff Laughlin wrote: > > > I've written a Perl module, Ham::APRS::Parser, for parsing APRS > > packets, and I've released it under the GPL. You can find it here: > > http://aprs.n1ywb.com/Ham-APRS-Parser-0.01/ > > > > It takes the packet string, parses it, and returns a hash with the > > data in a consistent and easy to process format. Currently it reliably > > returns position, from and to calls, digi-path, symbols, and Mic-E > > status reports from normal position reports, compressed position > > reports, and Mic-E position reports. More work is needed to fully > > implement the APRS protocol. > > Have you considered tracking down the Perl code that Ian (the APRS > spec editor) created which decodes packets? That was quite > complete and fully decoded everything similar to the "listen" > command. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown > "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U > "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" >