[Jprogramming] RE: Text File Manipulation

[Oleg Kobchenko]

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
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--- Randy MacDonald <ramacd at nbnet.nb.ca> 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.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Devon McCormick" <devonmcc at gmail.com>
> To: "Programming forum" <programming at jsoftware.com>
> 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 <bbill.lam at gmail.com> 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
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> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Devon McCormick
> > ^me^ at acm.
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> > preferred e-mail
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