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- From: zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach, the Lego Maniac)
- Subject: Re: Need a text manipulation tool / programming language.
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- Organization: Brandeis University
- References: <1992Nov21.234721.564@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:30:14 GMT
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- 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).
-
- Well on unix there are sed, awk and perl. (in increasing complexity
- and power) All have been ported to the mac.
-
- --Zach Zkessin@cs.brandeis.edu
-
- There are worlds out there where the sky is burning. The sea's
- asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of sound.
- Somewhere there's danger. Somewhere there's injustice.
- Somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
- -The Doctor "Survival"
-