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Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks
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Sat, 15 May 1999 03:52:17 GMT
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In article <MPG.119a8db2b45b0a21989927@lugnet.com>, lehman@javanet.com
(Todd Lehman) wrote:
> BTW, I think Larry Wall once commented or wrote something to the effect of,
> "awk still has to be better than perl at something."
That's in reference to the awk idiom:
awk '{ print $4 }'
which is much longer to do in perl. I personally
use this as a shell command inside Emacs all the
time. I'm not good at perl one-liners.
-Tim
--
Tim and/or Shelley Rueger - rueger "at" io.com
WWW page: http://www.io.com/~rueger/
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| (...) Awww, it's not _that_ much longer in perl: perl -alne 'print $F[3]' although it certainly doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely. (...) Can't columns be grabbed easily in Scheme/Lisp? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Yup! It's a Perl world, but awk is still a great thing! It's hardly my favorite general-purpose programming language, but other than grep and sort and cat and uniq, it's by far my favorite command-line pipe. I think perl has a command line (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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