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Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 20 May 1993 08:02:32 MST
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Date: 15 May 93 20:07:00 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!synapse.bms.com!watson.bms.com!rogers_m@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (MICHAEL ROGERS)
Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Subject: Re: string stripping
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In article <1993May15.080016.8080@smds.com>, rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes...
[stuff deleted]
>And so on, in the language of your choice. I sort of take it for granted
>that any language which is strong in text manipulation will have primitive
>operations that (a) can do string [and character] replacement, and (b)
>optionally apply replacement either substring by substring or globally
>across an entire string.
>
>As I say, I don't know Icon, so I can't evaluate the reasons why this
>is "a good problem" rather than a "no brainer". Different languages
>have different approaches, and an easy task in Icon might be a mass
>of hair in another language. It would be interesting to see a discussion
>of where the Icon approach "works" and, say, the Perl approach does not.
I, too, would love to see a thread comparing Icon, perl, awk, whatever,
and the relative merits & weaknesses of each.
BTW, anyone know of a source or contact for licensing awkcc from
the UNIX toolchest?
Mike Rogers
perl newbie, nascent w/ Icon
rogers_m@bms.com
>---
>
>I have cross-posted this to comp.lang.misc, since it is in the nature
>of a meta language discussion.
>
>--
>Richard Harter: SMDS Inc. Net address: rh@smds.com Phone: 508-369-7398
>US Mail: SMDS Inc., PO Box 555, Concord MA 01742. Fax: 508-369-8272
>In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
>Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.