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| (...) Just a couple: Brikwars (URL) Hammer (URL) last one has links to some others as well. Cheers, - jsproat    (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) 
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|  |  | Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks 
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| (...) Hmmm, I don't think I'm old enough for that yet. :-D I've just picked up Perl relatively recently. I'd hesitate to do a 100 Mb STDIO pipe on any MS platform. In DOS and Win16/95/98 (which are single-tasking OS's no matter what MS tells you), (...)   (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) 
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|  |  | Lego miniatures wargames 
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| I have, at various times, seen rules for using Legos and Lego minifigs to stage battles a la Warhammer 40k or other miniatures wargames. Can anyone point me to them on the web? I'm especially interested in sci-fi and fantasy versions, and not so (...)   (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) 
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|  |  | Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks 
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| (...) Aha, here it is: perl -ane (...) FS is awk is the field separator, not the record separator. The record separator in awk is RS. Hmm, doesn't look like Perl has an input field separator -- only an output field separator $, and input/output (...)   (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) 
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|  |  | Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks 
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| (...) Hmmm... I *think* a2p handles this by giving the perl script the "while(<>)" loop. I don't think perl will do that by itself. (...) Check perlvar, in the section on $/ (input record separator) -- in Perl, it can only be a regular string, but (...)   (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) 
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