NARA@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (N. Krishnaiyengar) (06/25/91)
Hi, I am looking for an utility, that will function like the "awk" function in the unix. The purpose is to edit single coulmn from a file containing several columns. I would appreciate any information about this. Thanks Nara
theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (George A. Theall) (06/25/91)
In article <1991Jun24.173624.18214@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> NARA@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (N. Krishnaiyengar) writes: >I am looking for an utility, that will function like the "awk" function in the >unix. What's wrong with AWK itself? It's been ported to DOS by several folks; there are even freeware implementations in the SIMTEL20 archives: Directory PD1:<MSDOS.AWK> AWK214.ZIP B 77831 900522 Rob Duff's AWK interpreter, v2.14 AWK300.ZIP B 86767 900713 AWK text scanning and processing language G210DOC.ARC B 298944 890412 Documentation for GNU AWK v2.10 GAWK211.ZIP B 198899 900417 Official release of GNU AWK v2.11 for MSDOS Happy hunting, George --- theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu Dept. of Economics theall@ssctemp.sas.upenn.edu Univ. of Pennsylvania gtheall@penndrls.upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA 19104
n65j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (06/28/91)
In article <1991Jun24.173624.18214@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu>, NARA@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (N. Krishnaiyengar) writes: > I am looking for an utility, that will function like the "awk" function in the > unix. The purpose is to edit single coulmn from a file containing several > columns. I would appreciate any information about this. Thanks > Why not AWK itself? There are several versions available for the PC, including my favorite GNU AWK (GAWK) which is available in many MSDOS archives on the net. Look for the file GAWK211.ZIP which contains the source, .EXE, and a decent summary manual. A thorough manual is available in GNU archives. -- Steve Pacenka, n65j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
miracle@sctc.com (Barry Miracle) (06/29/91)
An alternative to AWK is to write a program in ICON. If the parsing you need to do will be reused and maintained, or is of substancial sophistication, then ICON is superior. If you need to hack out something quick, then AWK works quite well. ICON is at cs.arizona.edu. Barry miracle@sctc.com