Re: Awk vs Perl for this assignment

• Subject: Re: Awk vs Perl for this assignment

amerar@xxxxxxx wrote...
>I'm trying to decide which is better.   I have to take huge record,
>5000 bytes long, parse out the fields into variables, and then prompt
>the user for each field, allowing them to change the value.
...

The only questions would be whether you want a GUI interface (in which
case Perl/Tk could provide one, but no awk has anything similar) or
whether your particular awk variant could handle records of 5000-odd
characters. If you don't want GUI and your awk handles the record
length, there's not going to be much difference between the two. A case
could be made for laziness: awk won't require as many semicolons as
Perl.

>Also, I'd like to know how in both AWK & Perl to accept from Standard
>Input while going through a loop.........ie, I'd be looping through
>each field of each record.  And, at the end of the record, I'd print it
>to a file, FTP it someplace and continue with the next record.

Looping and I/O are independent of each other. You're not expressing
the problem correctly. Try doing so, and a solution may become clear.
Since this looks like a course assignment, I won't give a straight
answer: you need to focus on I/O.

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