Text processing tools and/or languages

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:08:22AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> Traditionally, there is 'awk', which can do this sort of thing. It is actually
> a *very simple* programming language implement *simple* procedures to process
> text files line-by-line.
> 
> Originally, Perl would be the next level up in text file processing.  
> 
> Other options include using sed (possible several passes using pipelines), or 
> scripts written in Tcl or Python.
> 
> man awk
> man perl
> man sed
> man tcl
> 
OK, thanks, I know sed and awk fairly well.  If there's nothing else
obvious I'll probably go with awk, it's better than sed for handling
the state.

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Chris Green