×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
Hi Lance,
AWK is younger than RPG, but still not very new... It's more than 30
years old, itself. Indeed, most of the traditional Unix scripting tools
(awk, sed, grep, cut, etc) work on this same basis of reading a record
form a file, then running some code against it, then reading the next
record, etc.
Despite this similarity, I'd never say that working in awk (or sed,
grep, cut, etc) is anything like working in RPG. AWK is a very high
level language, the things it does well can be done with very little
code. The things it doesn't do well, simply can't be done by awk.
Contrast that to RPG... it may require a little more code to do the
basic things, however, it's capable of just about anything.
Also the somewhat arcane syntax of languages like awk and sed gets on my
nerves for anything that's more than a few lines of code. Half of the
language is remembering what all of the different punctuation symbols
do. Blech.
Lance Gillespie wrote:
I was expanding my programming horizons over the
weekend and ran across this article about awk at
http://www.linux.com/articles/114109
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact
[javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.
midrange.com
