Actually, I'm a Linux guy; just trapped behind Windows at work (though VMWare Player and an Ubuntu image get me through).
I would have loved to have used Perl, if I had the faintest notion how. When it comes to programming, I never mad it beyond "intermediate" bash scripting, and enough Python to produce a couple of useful things. Not text processing, quite obviously. :) On 8/3/06, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
martin kraegeloh wrote: > part of a good job is to choose the right tool. > > use perl for this kind of task. use vim to edit the perl script ;-) > and search cpan before creating your own solutions! Two problems with this approach: * Perl's regular expressions don't appear to be much more powerful than vim's. Perhaps not any more powerful any more. * Not everyone has or uses perl, especially Windoze users. Asking folks to learn perl isn't going to help -- few will bother. Regards, Chip Campbell
