At 18:57 -0400 2001.06.11, Katherine Richmond wrote:
>like to call a perl script to do the parsing part. Do you think perl will be
>faster than applescript at parsing large files?
Absolutely.
>don't know how much to ask Perl to do. Should I open/create/move files in the
>AppleScript and let Perl do the text work? Or should I have Perl do
>everything?
>What is your advice about this project?
I'd have perl do it all. It is far better, IMO, at doing anything with
moving/creating/opening files.
I would probably have the whole thing in Perl, and call AppleScript from
Perl instead of vice versa. The MacPerl::DoAppleScript() function works
well.
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