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- From: greent@ncs.dnd.ca (Tim Green)
- Subject: Re: Need a text manipulation tool / programming language.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.102924.28120@netfs.dnd.ca>
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- References: <1992Nov21.235606.1497@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 10:29:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.235606.1497@leland.Stanford.EDU> felciano@summit.stanford.edu (Ramon M. Felciano) writes:
- >
- >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).
- >
-
- Use "awk". This is a standard utility on most Unix systems and there
- are version available for MS-DOS at least.
- --TCG (:
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