Is there an awk like utility for .NET?

[Claud Balls]

When I was working with Unix one of my favorite tools was awk. I've
been using Regular Expressions, which are great, but sometimes I would
like to be able to return complete columns of data.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Claud,

Although very much people are reading this newsgroup, is the change to get
an answer in the way you ask your question very low.

The one who see this question should.
- have used unix
- have used awk
- have used a replacement for that in VBNet

I think you limit the change very much (UNIX had no VB). Describing what you
want to do gives mostly an answer.

Or ask this in a C style language newsgroup where are probably more former
Unix users.

I hope this helps anyway

Cor

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Claud,
In addition to Cor's comments.

Awk is a command line utility, while .NET is a programming environment.

How do you see using awk in .NET?

Quickly reading "An Awk Tutorial" http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html

It would seem to me that one could use one of the many methods to read a
text file into a Data Set, then use the features of the DataSet to do the
filtering, sorting & combining of the data.

Was this what you had in mind, or did you have something else in mind.

I don't know of any off hand, however one could create an "awk" object model
that performed actions based on the awk syntax...

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Claud Balls]

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into data sets.