kfj wrote:
I have used awk/gawk a lot when I was still working as a programmer, so I can probably help if your efforts become more involved. awk is much more powerful than just changing a few words in a bit of text. Everyone who's into scripting would do well to learn at least a bit of it; many tasks that seem daunting otherwise become very easy indeed. Awk is really good at text processing, but that is also it's main scope. As a general purpose language it becomes a bit awkward. If you want a tool that can do everything awk does plus everything else you'd expect from a programming language, go for Python. You won't regret it. In Python you can also use regular expressions to pick out bits of text and then change them to something else; since it's general- purpose, it's more verbose but also much more flexible.
"back in the day" (g)awk was useful (and I used it). However, with perl now so mature and widely installed (or installable) I view awk as of historical interest only. I use, and would recommend, perl as a "scripting glue" language. Perl has a helpful combination of syntactic convenience and a huge library of pre-cooked code. BugBear -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
