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1. Jeff, February 14, 2008:

   Hey, this looks great. I installed the duck, grabbed Perl active state and have the built in .pl files working properly…but I can’t get the adgroup filter to work. The Youtube video was a bit distored – can you confirm this code?

   use strict;

   use Text::English;

   my %stop = map {$_=>1} qw(
   a about an are as at be by for from how i is it
   of on or that the this to was what when where who will with the);

   while () {
   chomp;
   my @w=split( /\s+/. $_);
   @w = grep { ! $stop{ $_} } @w;
   @w = Text::English::stem(@w);
   print join(”. $ @w), “\n”;
   }

2. Jeff, February 14, 2008:

   I found a few errors, now it just pastes what I copied, but the result is noting.

3. Alan Rimm-Kaufman, February 14, 2008:

   Hi Jeff —

   • You shouldn’t need to install Perl.
   • You do need to install Text::English. Did you look at the longer video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK7xaTV3D2c
   • You can’t run the tool thru a Windows shortcut link, as it looks in “.” for filters.
   • If the window turns red, there’s an error. Are you seeing red?
   • As a test, can you get a simpler filter to work? say, the uppercase filter?

   Cheers –

   Alan

4. Daniel, February 28, 2008:

   Hi.
   I downloaded your duck tool however the software does not capture the filters that come along with the download, ie: on the left side of the user-interface, there are no filters which I can click on, there is just an empty white space. I thought I was doing something wrong however a friend with strong technical skills also had the same problem. Any advice??
   Thanks so much!

5. mike, March 7, 2008:

   Thank you for offering this tool, but I also can’t make out the code in the adgroup stemming video. Any chance you could post this for download? I would love to experiment with it.

6. Rob, May 6, 2009:

   I’m having the same problem as Daniel, when I load Duck there are no filters in the sidebar. What’s the fix?

7. Rob, May 6, 2009:

   Just an update for anyone experiencing the problem I mentioned above, the fix is to install Active Perl.

   However, now I’m having the same problem as Jeff… I have the script right and all the pre-packaged scripts work but the text in the window turns red when I turn it on. I have “Text” as a subfolder in the folder rkg-duck.exe is in, and English.pm in the “Text” folder.

   Some more detailed instructions that didn’t involve trying to figure out what’s going on in the video would be a big help, would love to use this tool but just can’t get it to work..

8. Alan, May 7, 2009:

   Sorry if the video instructions were terse. In the simplest case, the duck tool takes a stand-alone perl filter, no modules, and so there’s no issue of include paths. If you need a module, the easiest fix is to install activeperl on the local machine, then install the module using ppm (or ppm3?). Once you can run the filter on a dos command line, it should work fine in the Duck tool too.
   Hope that helps!
   Alan

9. Vertical Return, May 10, 2009:

   Hmm, the adgroup filter turns red for me too but all the other “pre-made” filters work just fine… strange indeed.

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