From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,db1e3158636a30f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-24 17:42:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <5ee5b646.0208211147.6253fb4@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Fill string with multiple lines from standard_input X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:45:03 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.54.95.80 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1030236168 210.54.95.80 (Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:42:48 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:42:48 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28380 Date: 2002-08-25T12:45:03+12:00 List-Id: "Kevin Cline" wrote in message news:ba162549.0208221236.3ed08fd4@posting.google.com... > So I am holding to my statement. Perl excels for simple > text filtering applications Hmmm, seems like "simple" above is the keyword. Sure you can write a throw-away code in, say, SQL to check or count or verify something. That's hardly a serious argument to use SQL in place of <>