[clue-tech] [spam?] text processing howto

[Bruce Ediger]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
>> You can do the same thing in two lines of perl. I won't bore you with
>> the power of pcre engines, but this has been adopted by the likes of
>> php, ruby, and even Windows Powershell (ugh!!!).
>>
>> BTW, I would love to see a thorough presentation of AWK as a topic for
>> a CLUE meeting. AWK is indeed a powreful utility, but I, for one, have
>> always been too lazy to learn it!
>
> I knew AWK before I learned perl.  There's a relatively small set of problems that awk is as good or
> better than perl (like this one).  Beyond that AWK is not nearly as easy to use or read.  So you're
> better off knowing perl.  And I'm not aware of anything nearly as good as the Camel and Bighorn
> books for copying AWK examples from.
>
> Dave
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