On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:20:10 +0100, Rune wrote:
>"Tom Melly" wrote:
>> Dunno about vb-script - why not give PERL a try? Okay, a bit
>> of a learning curve (although I'm sure you would find help
>> very forthcoming), but at the end you've learnt a nice,
>> multi-purpose, portable lang.
>
>I think I once decided with myself that if I were ever to learn a real
>programming language I'd start with Pascal or Delphi or what it's called...
>
>Why do you think PERL would be the best choice?

Despite the fact that it's an acronym, it's actually spelt either Perl or 
perl.

It's a good choice because it is designed precisely for extracting and 
formatting text and has many powerful features aimed at just that purpose.
In fact, the name itself stands for "practical extraction and reporting 
language" (not "pathologically eclectic rubbish lister" as some would
claim.)

For the same reasons, Delphi would be a poor choice.  Pascal is a notoriously
weak language for doing real work, and it has abysmal support for string
manipulation.  Even C is better, and C's string support sucks too.

Somewhere around here I even have the global search-and-replace script
that you need, believe it or not.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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