> What other "text-friendly" languages are out there, besides 
> PHP and Python? 
> Which one do you prefer to use for simple parsing?

For very simple work (select lines 5-20, or all lines between the lines
'hello' and 'world') AWK is nice. For more demanding work you could try
the old man SNOBOL, but it laks any program structure. I loved the
build-in language for the EVE editor (on VAX/VMS), but I don't kown any
ports to XP or Linux (Jan-Erik, you know any?). For the rest it is not
the language but the available libraries that determine the ease of
processing text. A good regular expression library will ease your work a
lot, and the tricks learned this way are language independent. I prefer
(of course) Python.

Wouter van Ooijen

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