Subject:
|
Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Sat, 15 May 1999 07:28:45 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
292 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, rueger@io.com (Tim Rueger) writes:
> 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.
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.
> I personally use this as a shell command inside Emacs all the
> time. I'm not good at perl one-liners.
Can't columns be grabbed easily in Scheme/Lisp?
--Todd
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks
|
| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
21 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
