Perl has syntax sugar for regex. Similar sintax sugar is possible in J with a few convenience definitiotns.
However, on one occasion I included regex in "require" but ended up with pure J parsing, which turned out to be more straightforward. See under Phrase DB, phrmake.ijs, readfile verb http://olegykj.sourceforge.net/jhp/ --- Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Devon; > > You must have been using a different Perl than the one I was exposed to last > year. I had the I-could-do-this-easier-in-J feeling every moment I was > wrestling with Perl. I guess YMMV applies. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > |\/| Randy A MacDonald | APL: If you can say it, it's done.. (ram) > |/\| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > |\ | | The only real problem with APL is that > BSc(Math) UNBF'83 | it is "still ahead of its time." > Sapere Aude | - Morten Kromberg > Natural Born APL'er | Demo website: http://156.34.91.130/ > -----------------------------------------------------(INTP)----{ gnat }- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Devon McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:54 AM > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] RE: Text File Manipulation > > > > You might be better off pre-processing the file in Perl to get the data > > from > > a page into > > a form more suited for J. > > > > On 10/4/06, bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> This is an aging report. I guess it is not possible to write a program > >> that can > >> handle all types of aging reports, so that it has to be an ad hoc based > >> solution. > >> > >> If I were you, I would rather not use regex but instead depend on > >> counting > >> lines > >> and position. Of course, it should pay attention to boundary conditions. > >> > >> -- > >> regards, > >> bill > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Devon McCormick > > ^me^ at acm. > > org is my > > preferred e-mail > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
