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Paul Womar <{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm looking for some tools ont eh mac that will allow some serious text
> processing, I particularly need to do the following:
[snip tasks]


The only ways I know of doing this sort of thing involve `proper'
programming:

MacPerl (http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/perl.html) will do
the job

The Alpha text editor comes with tcl, so you can program Alpha to do the
job (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~keleher/alpha.html)

And Applescript can probably do the job too; I'd investigate this last
if I were you.

Both Perl and tcl have lots of available documentation; I gather there's
a web-accessible Perl book.  There's a mailing list for Alpha tcl
developers that might be useful (Alpha's web site has the details).

Rowland.

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