Text processing tools and/or languages

[J.Witvliet at mindef.nl]

From: "Chris Green" <cl at isbd.net<mailto:cl at isbd.net>>
Date: Friday, 21 January 2022 at 10:41:28
To: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com<mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>>
Subject: Re: Text processing tools and/or languages

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:26:38PM -0500, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> >Yes, but it's *not* how sed and awk work. :-)
> >
> >Both sed and awk feed the whole of the text past each line


> I'm not well-versed in sed, but just playing around because I love
> text manipulation. Someone more experienced could probably do all that
> with one sed command and no pipe.
>
I've just about got to where I want using awk, it's not the ideal tool
but it's usually a bit easier to understand/maintain than sed scripts.

If it got much more complex I think I'd move to Python but that does
add quite a bit of coding overhead because it simply isn't so handy
for pattern matching and such.

Did you know that for complex constructions, you can use Libre Office in script-mode?



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