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[Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((Ted Harding))]

On 01-Oct-99 Jose Luis.Garcia Pacheco wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> pss: if this is not powerful enough for you,
> you can always go meet Mr.awk ... I think that O'Reilly (typical!) has
> a very good book about it. You will tell us...

Jose is right -- for this sort of thing 'awk' is the name of the game!

Not only is the O'Reilly book good -- you should also try to get hold
of the original

  Aho
  Weinberger
  Kernighan

book called "The AWK Programming Language" (Addison-Wesley 1988)
which is not large (204 pp) and, once you have got used to its
ultra-compact style, is a very good reference (though it does
not cover GNU awk [aka gawk] extensions).

Ted.

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Date: 01-Oct-99                                       Time: 11:25:42
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