What's New On These Pages: February 2018

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Sunday 4th February
I finally fixed an annoyance with my "live" script that adds Euro Millions winning numbers and raffle ticket numbers manually to data files. I run the script manually when the Euro Millions YouTube video first airs (note: it's not a live video - various non-UK Euro Million sites put up the winning numbers about 15 minutes earlier).
For many months, it had two niggles - one was that Camelot's video often infuriatingly lists the raffle numbers in non-alphabetical order when read from left to right. So I kept having to swap them alphabetically manually so that the raffle pop-up list would read alphabetically from top to bottom on my pages. This was easily fixed with a clunky bubble sort written to sort shell script arrays.
The worse problem was that I was wrongly calling a separately-written raffle number site scraper script from my "live" script and since the Camelot site doesn't have the raffle numbers at that point, I'd throw away my "live" numbers and blank them out...duh! The fix here was to not call the scraper and update a master include file with the name of the latest raffle include file I'd created from the "live" script.

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