Re: Regex on OS X
Re: Regex on OS X
- Subject: Re: Regex on OS X
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 23:24:47 +0100
At 2:38 pm -0700 1/10/02, bill fancher wrote:
Or you could avoid the bone-ugliness of perl (exacerbated by the
need to escape "\") and replace the last five lines with:
set JAN_HITS to do shell script "echo " & s & "|grep Jan"
Well apart from the fact that perl's beauty is without compare, you
obviously didn't bother to run my script to find out what it did and
I'm afraid you're going to have to disembellish and deminimize your
script somewhat in order to get it to do the same.
I deliberately made the perl look ugly in order to tease out a
minimalist :-). Perl's grep is just as short and pretty.
This echo's the string, pipes the result to grep, and grep searches
it for Jan.
Yep.
Perhaps the most compelling advantage of either approach here is
that users aren't required to install a third party osax to use the
script.
Added to which they don't need to learn a dozen different half-baked
and contorted regex syntaxes.
(If grep doesn't do it for you, there's also sed, awk, egrep,...)
Not to speak of oux, fank, hhj, clak and fother.
JD
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