Re: Ada & Scripting

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

Preben Randhol wrote:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> 
>> Actualy, I have started to write a Library so I can do my scripting in
>> Ada itself.
>> 
>> Sound strange? Well I am used to a compiler so the compiling part does
>> not matter to me while on the plus side Ada is a nice language to work
>> with.

> Sounds interesting, but it would be very nice if there was some manual.

That's why I have added the demo program - even thru they are so specialized
that they are only usefull for me. Currently I am in the process of
cleaning them up generalizing the commandline parser so more work is done
in the library and less work is needed for the scripts.

Also the most important part is not finished: Execution of external
programs. While I can execute programms (only with the CVS version) I want
to be able to write the standart input and read the standart output of
them. It is tricky since C function 'pipe' can only do one of the two.

The part which works well are the text file filter. They convert, fix,
change source files for me every day. They where the reason for starting
the project: I found sed just to cryptic.

> Perhaps there is, but I didn't find it at the sourceforge page.

Try http://adacl.sourceforge.net/html/index.htm for a start. The
sarIPFFiles.adb is a nice but complex example.

Back to the manual part: Yes they would be nice - if I had a bit more time.
Anybody want to help?

With Regards

Martin

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