[tlug] Alternatives to sed + awk

[Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus@example.com>]

Hello all,

I still remembered that it is the book "Unix - the power tools"
recommended me sed and awk as a tool set for text processing.

They are powerfull; I love one-line shell commands but they are
hard to remember.

Later, I went for PHP which has similar or even more powerful
APIs for text processing, I could call system("including sed and awk commands");
anytime I wanted...

Well, I think PHP has reached its limit and as said below, the OP says
Python is better; Ruby looks good as well.

I am looking for a tool that replaces PHP which is easy to use and and has
easy to remember syntax.

Any recommendations other than Ruby and Python?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>
Date: 2011/2/28
Subject: Re: [tlug] Coverity Scan
To: Tokyo Linux Users Group <tlug@example.com>


On 28 February 2011 03:58, Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:

> I thought it's kind of interesting that Perl has many more
> lines of code than Python

I think it is down to the fact that Perl was born as awk + sed, then
had a bunch of stuff bolted on, whereas Python was designed from the
start as a clean, OO (why the primitive types, Guido?) language
intended for pedagogy.

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Cheers,
Josh

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Best Regards,
Nguyen Hung Vu [aka: NVH] ( in Vietnamese: Nguyễn Vũ Hưng )
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