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- From: pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner)
- Subject: Should I use awk, perl, or something else?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.151529.7448@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:15:29 GMT
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- I've got a task that requires the extraction of pieces of text based
- on the context of the text within the document. More specifically, I
- have an SGML document from which I need to extract the title elements
- from certain types of sections.
-
- I'm trying to decide how best to attack this problem. I don't think
- it's going to be hard to do this, but I want to choose the right tool.
- I believe that I can do it in either awk or perl, but I don't know
- either, so I'm looking for recommendations. I've got two books in
- front of me: Programming Perl (Wall, Schwartz) and The AWK Programming
- Language (Aho, Kernighan, Weinberger)...
-
- Which is the better tool for the job? Is there something else that I
- should use? Thanks in advance, and email to pwagner@ejv.com (not the
- address from which this article was posted) would be great, as it's
- hard for me to read this newsgroup at present.
-
- >p
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