On May 25, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > On May 25, 2006, at 1:56 PM, A.M. wrote: >> You certainly are very skilled at using bash, but don't you find >> that it is slightly less flexible than if you were to simply write >> the whole shebang in Perl? > > I could do it in perl. But I look at computer languages as I do > spoken languages: it's nice to know how to express oneself in more > than one.
As an example of yet another language, here's one way to do a split in the language R: R: file <- "foo.bar.txt" R: newfile <- unlist(strsplit(file, "\\."))[2] R: cat(newfile, "\n") bar Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
