X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.net/barcat.git/blobdiff_plain/6e5908127c5a54ed3b1dbf7bb97347b280f9be64..beb81e63d94ed634661c385bf676ceb3544f9079:/barcat?ds=sidebyside

diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index 0fd06e2..d4a8274 100755
--- a/barcat
+++ b/barcat
@@ -222,13 +222,22 @@ if ($opt{markers} and $size > 0) {
 				return sum(@order) / @order;
 			}
 			elsif ($func =~ /\A([0-9.]+)v\z/) {
+				die "Invalid marker $char: percentile $1 out of bounds\n" if $1 > 100;
 				my $index = $#order * $1 / 100;
 				return ($order[$index] + $order[$index + .5]) / 2;
 			}
-			else {
+			elsif ($func =~ /\A-?[0-9.]+\z/) {
 				return $func;
 			}
-		} - $minval;
+			else {
+				die "Unknown marker $char: $func\n";
+			}
+		};
+		defined $pos or do {
+			warn $@ if $@;
+			next;
+		};
+		$pos -= $minval;
 		$pos >= 0 or next;
 		color(36) for $barmark[$pos * $size] = $char;
 	}
@@ -547,12 +556,12 @@ In PostgreSQL from within the client:
 
 Earthquakes worldwide magnitude 1+ in the last 24 hours:
 
-    https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/1.0_day.csv |
+    curl https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/1.0_day.csv |
     column -tns, | barcat -f4 -u -l80%
 
 External datasets, like movies per year:
 
-    curl https://github.com/prust/wikipedia-movie-data/raw/master/movies.json |
+    curl https://github.com/prust/wikipedia-movie-data/raw/master/movies.json -L |
     perl -054 -nlE 'say if s/^"year"://' | uniq -c | barcat
 
 But please get I<jq> to process JSON
@@ -560,7 +569,7 @@ and replace the manual selection by C<< jq '.[].year' >>.
 
 Pokémon height comparison:
 
-    curl https://github.com/Biuni/PokemonGO-Pokedex/raw/master/pokedex.json |
+    curl https://github.com/Biuni/PokemonGO-Pokedex/raw/master/pokedex.json -L |
     jq -r '.pokemon[] | [.height,.num,.name] | join(" ")' | barcat
 
 USD/EUR exchange rate from CSV provided by the ECB:
@@ -571,7 +580,7 @@ USD/EUR exchange rate from CSV provided by the ECB:
 
 Total population history in XML from the World Bank:
 
-    curl http://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/1W/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL |
+    curl http://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/1W/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL -L |
     xmllint --xpath '//*[local-name()="date" or local-name()="value"]' - |
     sed -r 's,</wb:value>,\n,g; s,(<[^>]+>)+, ,g' | barcat -f1 -H