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Scripting / Data Manipulation

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  • 11-06-2015 5:56pm
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    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,054 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Looking to learn a methodology for manipulating data and/or parsing through files.

    What is the best options? Usually I use VB or Excel - neither of which are ideal. Our IT infrastructure is quite tied down, but I think I could make a case for something if it was deemed beneficial.

    I know a small bit of regular expressions from Notepad, but not in terms of writign a script - so what should be an automatic process becomes quite cumbersome feeding in each part manually. I don't have access to Perl.

    Any suggestions?


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    bpmurray
    Registered Users Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    What platform? Are you locked down to Windows or can you use Linux? If the former, I'd use Powershell, but if Linux is available, go for awk.


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I was going to recommend perl.
    PHP has good regular expression support. It's quite easy to program even at the shell level.


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    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    From my perspective, it depends on the scope of what you need done and the platform you're using. If it is Linux, then you have the choice of Bash/Shell Scripting, Perl or Python. With respect to Windows, as bp said, you have the option of using Powershell, but you can also use Perl and Python.

    As I said, it depends of the scope of work needed to be done, the volume of data that needs to be manipulated and the frequency of when this should occur.


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