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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

924.0. "SCAN for Amiga?" by BISON::YESSE (Computing at 6200 ft.) Wed Nov 25 1987 10:23

	Does anyone know of a Vax SCAN-like language for the Amiga?
	I've been using SCAN at work, & it comes in very handy.

	For those unfamiliar with SCAN, it's essentially a character/
	string manipulation language that permits file editing based
	on pattern matches. We use it to translate & format ASCII output
	from one program into a file readable by another. Beats the heck
	out of using C or Basic for this purpose!

	KY

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
924.1		COOKIE::WITHERS	Same Sow, Same Ear, Same Silk, Same Purse	`Wed Nov 25 1987 10:38`	6
	Since SCAN is a VMS-specific language (as far as I can tell), I doubt that you'd find it for the Amiga. But, I suspect that there may be a PD SNOBOL somewhere and SNOBOL is (personal opinion) more flexible than SCAN... BobW
924.2	If you're REAL ambitious...	COOKIE::WECKER	A wholly owned subsidiary of DEC	`Wed Nov 25 1987 11:41`	8
	re: .0 I have the source for ICON (the follow on for SNOBOL) for U**X and VMS. Let me know if you want to try porting it. dave
924.3		Z::TENNY	Dave Tenny - VAX LISP Development	`Wed Nov 25 1987 12:32`	4
	ICON has already been ported, and is on a FISH disk. I don't remember which number. Dave
924.4		ELWOOD::PETERS		`Wed Nov 25 1987 13:01`	7
	ICON is on one a the newest FISH disks. I'll look for it this weekend. Steve Peters
924.5	will sed do?	16BITS::KRUGER		`Wed Dec 09 1987 23:04`	6
	What about sed? I know Manx includes one with their unixish utilities. It will do that sort of thing. dov