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From: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: sed / awk -> perl
Summary: You should have it already!
Keywords: sed awk translator
Message-ID: <1394@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 00:52:21 GMT
References: <1990Feb6.160320.24006@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1990Feb6.160320.24006@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.UManitoba.CA (B. Rahardjo) writes:
>I'm new in 'perl' so I want to see what it can do by
>translating some of my sed and awk scripts into perl.
>The man page says there are translators for sed-> perl, and awk->perl.
>So ... where can I get it ?
>
The awk/sed to perl (a2p/s2p) translators are included in the perl
distribution. There is a subdirectory x2p where the source ought to be.
When you do 'Make install' a2p and s2p installs themselves into the same
directory as perl. So you probably have them already!

	Jan D.