Re: shell script and text manipulation
Re: shell script and text manipulation
- Subject: Re: shell script and text manipulation
- From: "Reese, Stevan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:25:38 -0800
I've had good success using sed/awk even with unicode. There are so many
ways to get things done. :)
This is a few snips from a script I wrote that puts some text into InDesign.
property sr : "<000A>" --soft return or forced line break
property bu : "<2022>" --bullet
set theStyle to paragraphs of (do shell script "sed -n '" & n & "," & n
& "p' " & IDinputPfile & " |awk -F\\t '{ print $1 }{ print $2 }{ print $3 }{
print $4 }{ print $5 }'")
set E1 to item 5 of theStyle
set features to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of E1 & " | sed
s-';'-'" & sr & bu & "'-g"
On 2/23/05 10:05 AM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Christian Vinaa wrote:
>
>> the various input from this list regarding shell scripts made me wonder
>>
>> ok shell scripts arae good for CURL and DATE stuff
>>
>> but what about text manipulation ?
>
> There's traditional unix tools like awk and sed, but those are only
> good for working in ASCII. I'd recommend using Perl, Python or Tcl,
> which are all Unicode-savvy and include plenty of text processing
> tools as standard. Mind you'll probably need to munge text encodings
> a bit at input and/or output if calling via 'do shell script'. For
> Perl-based regular expressions, check out the RE library at AppleMods
> <http://applemods.sourceforge.net/>, though note that it's unfinished
> so can't yet handle large amounts of text. If you're doing a lot of
> text processing you might even consider switching completely; it's
> much less hassle than bouncing between languages via slow and clumsy
> 'do shell script' calls.
>
> has
Stevan
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