On Thursday 15 July 2010 15:20:39 Victor Churchill wrote: > On 15 July 2010 14:42, Jack Knight <j...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On 15/07/10 14:08, Vic wrote: > >>>> perl -e 'print reverse<>'<input.csv>output.csv > >>> > >>> Yes, but because Python is more legible I stand a better chance of > >>> understanding what it does when I come to re-read it. Not like that > >>> gibberish. > > > > Pedant's corner: "that gibberish" isn't even all perl - the redirects > > are basic *ix shell ! > > Of the Perl bit, 'print' and 'reverse' can hardly be called gibberish, > so it must be the '<>'.
Given that I am a Perl and Python ignoramus, I might easily have found both gibberish (or anyhow, unintelligible, which really isn't the same thing). I found the "perl" almost fully comprehensible at first sight. A quick google furnished the meaning of "-e", which was the bit I didn't understand. It may well be generally true that Perl looks like gibberish to a Python user, but I don't see how it can have been in this particular case. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
