> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:23:00AM -0400, Selvaraj, Arvindh (CAP) > wrote: >> >> 1.so what is difference between perl, awk, sed. > > > Perl is a full-fledged general-purpose language. Like all languages, > there are tasks at which it excels and tasks at which it doesn't, but > you can do most anything with it. > > Perl was originally, back in the bad old days, created as a > replacement/extension for awk, which is a little language for text file > processing. Sed is an even simpler text processor, strictly for stream > editing. > > If you need to do anything beyond parse and munge text, sed and awk are > Right Out.
I more often see Perl compared to Java these days rather than Sed and Awk. They seem to fill similar niches as glue languages, binding legacy systems to newer systems (old Databases to intranets ... etc.) Although that said I have seen a total re-write of Awk in perl, and Perl has been defined at one point as a port of that semi-natural language called "unix". >> i am on win nt server. > > I suggest you look into learning Vim. It's a very powerful, efficient > editor. Failing that, there are more powerful Notepad replacements. I > can't name any offhand. Under unix I use vi(m) under Windows I use HTMLKit. I hesitate to reccomend HTMLKit for anyone who doesn't work so exclusively on the web as I do, but it does support Perl syntax coloring, and help files. It also uses Perl as one of it's plugin extension languages (along with VB, Java, C++ and others). Best of all it's free. -Chris _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
