I agree with Chip and have a recommendation. Since you have been
using Vim, Perl will be much easier to learn.
A very good beginning book on Perl is located at http://
learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ . It is not as
thorough as the 'Camel' book, but has a lot of good info. and the
price is right!
When I first began studying programming Perl was over my head and
seemed very difficult. After using Vim for only
a short time, Perl all of a sudden made a lot more sense.
Good luck,
Kevin
On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Marv Boyes wrote:
Actually, I'm a Linux guy; just trapped behind Windows at work (though
VMWare Player and an Ubuntu image get me through).
I would have loved to have used Perl, if I had the faintest notion
how. When it comes to programming, I never mad it beyond
"intermediate" bash scripting, and enough Python to produce a couple
of useful things. Not text processing, quite obviously. :)
On 8/3/06, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
martin kraegeloh wrote:
> part of a good job is to choose the right tool.
>
> use perl for this kind of task. use vim to edit the perl script ;-)
> and search cpan before creating your own solutions!
Two problems with this approach:
* Perl's regular expressions don't appear to be much more powerful
than vim's. Perhaps not any more powerful any more.
* Not everyone has or uses perl, especially Windoze users. Asking
folks to learn perl isn't going to help -- few will bother.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
