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looking for a tool to conver line endings
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Don Dailey



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PostPost subject: Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings    Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:22 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
gladius wrote:
Don wrote:
I suggest to Richard that you could just learn Perl and be done with it. Perl has powerful regular expressions, is a full scripting language and is just about as expressive as any language can be. You could write one-liners on the command line (without getting out the editor) with the -e switch which will do amazing things. And when a one-liner is not quite enough Perl let's you do amazingly powerful stuff in just a few lines of code.

At the risk of starting a language flamewar, s/perl/python/g. Smile.

Seriously though, both Perl and Python are fantastic tools. Both would serve you very well.

No flamewar, in fact I almost suggested other high level languages but wanted to keep it simple. I believe Perl is the one to reach for if you are looking for a "Swiss Army one-off Tool" for things like this.

I would suggest as a second choice, Ruby, then Python and there are others that would do a very similar good job for stuff like this. But I would use Ruby or Python if it were a larger project, Perl for these simple things. Of course you can build powerful systems with just Perl too, it's a very complete language.

I wrote a scrabble playing program in Perl using the Tk library for the graphics, the computer computes and plays a high scoring move. It was an amazingly short program, I can imagine the same thing in Java or C to be MUCH longer and complicated.
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looking for a tool to conver line endings Richard Vida Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:28 pm
      Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Horacio Montenegro Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:44 pm
      Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Ignacio Garcia Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:16 pm
      Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Lucas Braesch Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:30 pm
      Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Robert Hyatt Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:03 pm
            Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Ignacio Garcia Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:42 pm
                  Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Robert Hyatt Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:43 am
      Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Horacio Montenegro Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:08 pm
      Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Richard Vida Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:29 pm
            Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Ignacio Garcia Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:07 pm
            Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Sven Schüle Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:10 pm
                  Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Ignacio Garcia Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:37 am
                        Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Horacio Montenegro Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:45 am
                              Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Sven Schüle Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:37 am
                        Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Robert Hyatt Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:47 am
                        Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Sven Schüle Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:58 am
                              Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Ignacio Garcia Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:54 am
            Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Lucas Braesch Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:58 pm
                  Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Don Dailey Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:15 pm
                        Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Gary Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:25 pm
                              Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Don Dailey Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:22 pm
      Re: looking for a tool to conver line endings Don Dailey Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:52 pm
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