merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (07/13/89)
In article <8372@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, lacey@batcomputer (John Lacey) writes: | I'm developing an application using AWK. The programs involved | are getting to be fairly substantial (several hundred lines, up to | 6 or 7 files being read and written to), and I was wondering if | anyone has ever seen, heard of, written, or used an AWK debugger. | | I am using both gawk 2.10 and the original AWK (1977). | | What does a debugger look like for an interpreted language? Is it | possible to add one on to an existing interpreter, or am I going to | have to hack at gawk in order to get what I want? | | I know, a lot of you are going to say ``Why are you using AWK?'' | Because it's a convenient development language, and in this case | I can make good use of the pattern matching. If I need a faster | application when I finish, I will recode it in C. Several hundred lines? Six or seven files? One simple piece of advice: GET PERL. You can even convert your awk script (if it didn't do anything nasty) directly into Perl. And yes, there's a debugger :-) It's also free. See comp.sources.unix and/or send mail to "Larry Wall" <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> to get it. Just another Perl fanatic, -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/