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Re: Checked Exceptions in Java

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On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:12:28 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

>   Sometimes, a »quick and dirty« program that does not care for any
>   problems that might arise when some resource is not available already
>   can solve a problem when the programmer himself is the only user (or
>   in similar situations) with 1 % of the effort it would take to turn it
>   into a professional or library-grade program (which would even include
>   writing documentation). But then, Java might not be intended for such
>   tasks, there is Perl.
> 
I think this is right. and that there are better tools than Perl for 
this. 

As Linux/UNIX programmer I use grep, gawk or less in preference to Perl. 
The exact one chosen would depend on what was needed to be done. [1]

I'm unsure what a Windows user's weapons of choice would be - Perl or 
Visual BASIC?

[1] The last job of this type I did was when I needed a list of names as 
'Firstname SURNAME and was handed an Excel spreadsheet containing the 
names in a single column as 'SURNAME Firstname'. I first saved the 
spreadsheet as a CSV file and used gawk to pull out the name column, 
split it on spaces, swap the elements and write it to a second file.


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Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-02-06 20:02 +0000
  Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-06 20:41 +0000
    Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-02-06 22:14 +0000

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