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- From: felciano@summit.stanford.edu (Ramon M. Felciano)
- Subject: Need a text manipulation tool / programming language.
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 23:56:06 GMT
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- Hi --
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- I'm looking for a tool or programming language designed for the
- manipulation of text files. I've got a number of similarly formatted
- files that I want parsed into my program. Before I can do that,
- however, I need to "massage" these files into the same format. I tried
- writting a tool to do this, but the result starting looking more and
- more like a language syntax parser (aagh!)
-
- Are there any tools (Mac, Unix, or other) that do something like this?
- I guess I'm sort of looking for a glorified grep with language
- constructs (e.g. if-thens).
-
- Thanks!
-
- Ramon
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