Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Gaël DONVAL wrote:
> Le vendredi 31 août 2012 à 09:46 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit :
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:18:15AM +0000, Mark Blakeney wrote:
> > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:31:29 +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > > This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful tool,
> > > > namely Perl.
> > > I would suggest python is a much better choice to a young person
> > > just starting out.

For going through a file, line-by-line, and massaging the format, my 
first instinct would be sed.  That's what it's intended for.

Miles Fidelman


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