There is a wonderful book I just found for this sort of thing, and am working through: Minimal Perl, by Tim Maher.
Awk is great, terse, powerful, but a bit opaque. And more up to date people always seem to talk about using Perl for what awk always was used for. Well, if you ever felt you too should come up to date, got tired of pitying looks when you mentioned awk, took up some materials on Perl and then threw up your hands in despair, get Minimal Perl. Clear, practical, easy, and with a focus on one liners of exactly the sort that you'd use in the situation on this thread. You could call it 'Perl for the rest of us'.... Text manipulation without tears. Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
