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Re: how to manipulate data like awk or perl when visiting a file
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rustom |
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Re: how to manipulate data like awk or perl when visiting a file |
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Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:02:54 -0800 (PST) |
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On Dec 29, 9:14 am, rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
> I want to get a leg up on how I might manipulate a file like I can
> with shell tools or awk/perl.
>
> Examples: I want to display only the first field of lines 30 thru 75
> I want to reverse field 1 and 5 and print those plus 6 of
> each line.
> I want to add up the numbers that appears in field 7 of
> lines 11 through 28 printing the total to ~/sumtot.txt
>
> I'd like to see a few basic examples and maybe I'll be able to get the
> idea enough to do some of that when I need to.
>
> I don't really want to start way at the beginning of elisp to get
> started. I hoped maybe there are some examples like that available
> in existing info documents.
>
> I haven't noticed much talk here about those kinds of chores so maybe
> elisp isn't a good choice for that?
There was a discussion on something like this a few days ago. See
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/77dc549480d95f92#