Re: [OT?] Feature/Tool request
Re: [OT?] Feature/Tool request
- Subject: Re: [OT?] Feature/Tool request
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:19:36 +1000
| A nice idea, but you may find some resistance to it's implementation as an entirely new feature given the availability of similar tools, such as awk, which is designed largely for exactly the situation you described.
Also, there are trade-offs with a learning approach... the biggest negative is what happens when it's inputs are ambiguous? If I have a field that I change from "thomas" to "Thomas", what happens when it encounters "honji-hu"? The correct answer may be "Honji-Hu", but if it's assumed basic titlecase, it might not get that. The converse also applies, i.e. what if it assumes wordcase and makes "star of the sea" into "Star Of The Sea", instead of "Star of the Sea" (or whatever is preferred).
If I'm working on data of any importance at all (ideally, all data I ever work with), I don't want to leave it up to the computer to guess what I want. That's why awk, as boring and awk-ward as it is, works well enough; it does what it's told, exactly and only.
Wade Tregaskis (AIM/iChat, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis, ICQ: 40056898, MSN: email@hidden, AV iChat & email: email@hidden, Jabber: email@hidden) -- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? |
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