Re: extract values from a string

From	Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: extract values from a string
Date	2022-04-17 02:50 +0200
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On 17/04/2022 12:38, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 12:31:34PM +1200, Ash Joubert wrote:
>> Python is a convenient and scriptable solution for many text processing
>> problems. You can call it from within bash:
> But you really *shouldn't*.  What's the point of writing your script
> in two different languages, and having to run two different interpreters?
> Just write the whole thing in Python.  (Or Perl, or Tcl, or Ruby, or
> whatever language you're using that's not bash.)


Indeed! At the end of my email I wrote:


On 17/04/2022 12:31, Ash Joubert wrote:
 > It depends on your workflow, but you might consider writing the whole
 > thing in Python as a script with first line #!/usr/bin/python3 . Many is
 > the time I rewrote a bash script in Python when I realised that I wanted
 > proper types, error handling, and unit tests.


-- 
Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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extract values from a string wilson <info@bigcount.xyz> - 2022-04-16 04:40 +0200
  Re: extract values from a string Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-16 05:10 +0200
  Re: extract values from a string Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-16 18:10 +0200
    Re: extract values from a string <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-16 18:20 +0200
      Re: extract values from a string Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-16 18:50 +0200
      Re: extract values from a string Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-16 19:30 +0200
    Re: extract values from a string Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2022-04-17 04:30 +0200
      Re: extract values from a string Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-17 05:00 +0200
  Re: extract values from a string David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-16 21:30 +0200
  Re: extract values from a string Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-04-17 02:40 +0200
    Re: extract values from a string Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-04-17 02:40 +0200
    Re: extract values from a string Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-17 02:40 +0200
      Re: extract values from a string Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-04-17 02:50 +0200

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