[plug] Shell Tips

[Peter Caffin]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, HILL  Walter wrote:
> I've got the job of converting
> the files into a format suitable for importing into a database Probably
> <TAB> delimited). I intend on writing the conversion programme(s) in C
> (unless some one has a better idea).

This is exactly the sort of job PERL (Practical Extraction & Reporting
Language) was designed for. You'll appreciate the strength of regular
expressions handling and it's a fairly fast language to pick up :).

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