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- Subject: Re: Need a text manipulation tool / programming language.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.135450.27950@news.uiowa.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:54:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.235606.1497@leland.Stanford.EDU> felciano@summit.stanford.edu (Ramon M. Felciano) writes:
- >
- >Hi --
- >
- >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
- >
- Sounds like a job for awk. If you are not running a UNIX environment
- there should be gnu versions of awk that you can obtain.
- Good luck,
-
- Alex.
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