Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > I won, and you lost
There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in the closely related expression "I won, you lost." > I really don't think I'd try this with shell scripts. The tools just > aren't designed for this. You really want tools that are custom built > for natural language processing, or a language that lets you run > through a large string character by character in a fast, efficient > way (C comes to mind) if you're trying to build your tools from the > ground up. At the risk of being seen as old-fashioned, but as a user of both languages, I think Perl is a much better choice than C for string processing. But whatever the OP knows is likely the best choice in the short term.
