Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!ip From: ip@me.utoronto.ca (Bevis Ip) Subject: Re: A Challenge to Sed Adepts Message-ID: <89May28.160307edt.19078@me.utoronto.ca> Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering References: <432@chessene.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28 May 89 16:03:00 EDT This is the first time I post flame in the past few years, but I just can't resist this anymore. There is no point in this exercise at all; I think people should try to resist their urge to do such nonsense--well, at least the poster admitted himself that it's a waste of time. I wouldn't blame him on wasting bandwidth because bandwidth has been wasted one way or another anyway. I appreciate intelligent questions and answers, but not nonsense that people thought up like the one posted, awk is a better tool for this application, for example. Probably it's the format of the posting that upset me, I will definitly not be flaming if it's been posted like "I have to do this in sed because of whatsoever ...". If the poster is trying to bring out a discussion on sed through the posting, I think there's a better way to present it. Thank you for bearing with me. bevis -- Bevis Ip <> ip@me.utoronto.ca, ip@me.toronto.edu University of Toronto <> {pyramid,uunet}!utai!me!ip Mechanical Engineering <> {allegra,decwrl}!utcsri!me!ip