Re: Scripting language recomendation for using

2006-09-18 Thread David
Dear Neil, Thanks for your hint, I guess it can be done with Jython script, but do you know exactly if what I want can be done easy? Does it provides a such sort functions and also for extracting certain columns for a file?, Do you know the name of the functions? Thanks in advance,

Re: Scripting language recomendation for using

2006-09-18 Thread David
Thanks for your hint, I guess it can be done with BeanShell script, but do you know exactly if what I want can be done easy? Does it provides a such sort functions and also for extracting certain columns for a file?, Do you know the name of such functions? Thanks in advance, Davi

Re: Scripting language recomendation for using

2006-09-17 Thread Neil Benn
Hello, You will get 1001 different answers to this question. Personally I use Jython for this kind of thing as it has the java library but also adds the nice extra stuff from python which makes writing small scripts verey easy. You also get to learn a bit about (J|P)ython which can be

Re: Scripting language recomendation for using

2006-09-17 Thread Marcus Lindblom
David, I have a similar background to you (c++ & java) and I've found Beanshell to be pretty good. It's _very_ much like coding straight java so it'll suit you fine, if you want to get started with a very small learning curve. So, if you can imagine getting your tasks done in Java, you can do

Scripting language recomendation for using

2006-09-17 Thread David
Dear members, I have two tasks to do, vía script: 1. Sort a fixed-length (all records of a given column have the same lenght), so the sorting criteria will be specified by values at certain possitions. I have this script using Unix Korn Shell, using unix function: sort, but I can't use i