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Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! [message #37584 is a reply to message #37576]

Thu, 08 January 2004 15:36

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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> Languages designed for processing text files are e.g. perl and awk. If
> speed is really important you can use C for everything; but I guess it
> would take a lot of effort to beat a specialized language, so better try
> these first.

Perl is a good language for everyone to know, especially with regards to
text processing. There have been plenty of times I've used Perl to
reorder, massage, redistribute and otherwise mangle data files before
IDL ever sees them.

Sometimes it does get a bit obfuscated if you let it. There was one
time I had a bash shell script which called some perl programs which
then called some Java programs which then interacted with a database and
wrote some files which then got immediately processed by IDL. The end
results were just some plain text data files and images, but it was a
circuitous path at best. But, it was a fun programming adventure!! ;-)

Mike

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		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: R.Bauer on Fri, 09 January 2004 09:55
		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: btt on Fri, 09 January 2004 07:30
		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: wmconnolley on Fri, 09 January 2004 01:50
		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 08 January 2004 15:36
		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: Pepijn Kenter on Thu, 08 January 2004 14:57
		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 08 January 2004 13:22
		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: m.doyle on Thu, 08 January 2004 12:26
		Re: comparing and concatenating arrays...please help!! By: Pepijn Kenter on Thu, 08 January 2004 05:25

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