On 9/17/2010 2:12 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > You, on the other hand, remind me of Larry Wall, who popped into > comp.lang.awk around '93 or '94, and rather than try to help someone solve > his awk problem, tried to get him to rewrite it into perl.... I'll take that as a compliment. Larry has always been brilliant. Note that I'm not against continuing to use anything that works - I just don't see the point in learning awk today since there are better and more completed alternatives today and think it is a bad idea to recommend to anyone. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com