fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Fred Dushin) (02/22/90)
Thanks to all those who gave advice for simple programs which perform grep functions on text files (grep-wc1.2 DA, mpw, etc.) However, my needs have changed! What I would like is something along roughly the same lines (a nice program which will perform grep--or something grep-like--on text files and which will save output), but which also (i) will find lines with string1 _and_ string2, lines with string1 _or_ string2, lines with not string, or combinations thereof, eg, ((string)and(string)) or ((string) and not (string)) Nice, eh? I tried doing something like this in hypercard, but HC is unbearably *slow* and seems to have some problems dealing with a lot of recursion (and the function I wrote is through and through recursive...); and (ii) has a (gasp) command line interface--sorry McFascists. Sure, the mac is nice, but it sure is a pain to have the fingers pasted to the mouse (maybe if we could cut them first...). Having a nice, simple, unix-style interface would be best. I doubt there is anything that fits these conditions out there, but I thought I'd just give it a try. E-mail responses would be nice. Thanks, Fred Dushin fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu