ramsey@malathion (Ed Ramsey) (07/17/90)
I am working on a project which requires a significant amount of "canned" post-processing to produce useful reports. I intend to prototype the post-processing software in AWK. There are numerous sites around the United States who will need to use this post-processing software (many of whom are using PC computers) and I was hoping there was a free or inexpensive way to translate my AWK source into compilable C code. Does anyone know of such a beast? Thanks! -Ed -- Ed Ramsey NPIRS User Services Manager Ramsey@npirs.purdue.edu "You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?" Richard Bach, *One*
walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole) (07/18/90)
I assume the need for compilable c is for run-time speed; you may be able to get the effect you need by using perl, which does a run-time compile (sort of). I've found a substantial improvement in speed when converting from awk to perl. If disk space isn't a big concern, it can do a image dump to reduce start-up time. perl comes with a2p, a converter for awk, and s2p, for sed, both of which have produced completely correct, if somewhat hard to read, code for me.