On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:03 -0700, Vitaliy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have some experience in C and Object Pascal, but I get the feeling that 
> they're not the best languages for parsing text. A web developer who once 
> worked here commented that a C program we were using for parsing a CSV file 
> (grab fields, rearrange them, do basic sanity checks) would take a fraction 
> of the effort to code in PHP.
> 
> What other "text-friendly" languages are out there, besides PHP and Python? 
> Which one do you prefer to use for simple parsing?

Perl. Some of the text stuff Perl's got is so powerful it boggles the
mind. Unfortunately it's not always the easiest to figure out what's
going on for a piece of code.

TTYL

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