sed and perl - yuck [Was Re: Preprocessor functionality equivalent ideas needed]

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Another approach could be to simulate a preprocessor with sed or perl
> scripts.

Did that, hated it and wrote AdaCL. If you rather use Ada then perl and find
find sed cumbersome you should look at AdaCL.

If you disagree: Write a sed line which inserst "OS." bevore every
CD_Recorder -  but only if it is not allready there.

sarDo --serarch="CD_Recorder" --insert-before="OS." *.ad[bs]

There is no limit on the amout of text changes you can to with one call the
the command.

But realy cool thing about AdaCL is that it is a library and sarDo is only a
front end to it. If you need something more complex you can write an Ada
programm to do it.

See http://adacl.sourceforge.net for Details. Complete Source in GNATHTML is
available online. Browse the sar* and AdaCL-SAR-* Files.

With Regards

Martin

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