Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor

From	Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201205.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor
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Date	2012-05-28 02:16 +0200
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Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you were given the task of generating a set of text files whose different 
> versions differed only in a set of numerical values, which tool would you 
> choose?

diff?

> The first tool that jumped to my mind was the M4 preprocessor, but it 
> appears it doesn't handle algebraic operations that well.

m4 doesn't seem to do anything well except edit sendmail.cnf files

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Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-27 17:29 +0100
  Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201205.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-05-28 02:16 +0200
    Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 12:32 +0100
      Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-28 13:51 +0100
        Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 16:19 +0100
          Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 16:43 +0100
      Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-05-28 14:45 +0100
        Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 16:21 +0100
          Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-05-28 16:33 -0700
      Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-05-28 16:46 +0200
  Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-29 07:50 +1200

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