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Programming language - basic?
I'm looking to write an application to search data files to extract, reformat and write data to one or more other files. Sometime ago I used a version of Basic with good record and string handling which made it easy to do that type of job. Sadly no more.
Anyone know where I can get something to do the same job? Thanks
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Perl is a good choice, easy to learn to do basics, quite easy to do much more complex tasks, and quick to develop in. It is very fast in many areas, especially text processing, and portable between Unix / Linux / Windows. You can get a free copy of perl pre-compiled for Windows from http://www.activestate.com
Python (also available on ActiveState's web page) is another good option, also free, but I think perl is a bit easier overall to get started with. Python has the advantage of having some very good GUI libraries available (wxPython) and free Windows compilers to create standalone Python executables (py2exe and pyinstaller)
I would agree that Perl sounds like a winner for what you need. If you are on Windows I ran across the following version of Perl
http://strawberryperl.com/
It looks very interesting, but I simply have not had the time or need to try it out.
Adrian
The computer language Perl, generally regarded as the most useful computer language for processing and manipulating text based data.
http://perl.com
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