Re: forth for log parsing

On Apr 7, 11:46=A0am, gavino <gavcom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I heard perl is good for parsing logfiles and generating
> reports...

Yes, indeed. Perl ist very good in this area. Choose it for this task
if you can use it.

> ...how does forth handle this area?

Would you ask the same for C?

> Does anyone here ever use gforth or another open forth to parse
> logfiles?

Yes.

> While I am at it I know i asked this before but how about a good cgi
> pacakge for forth?

Good project. Write one.

> Does one exist?

I've seen CGI packages. But I dont use something like this in Forth.
CGI is pretty simple and with not a lot of efforts you can write
programs in Forth that use the CGI interface. I could imagine that it
is that simple in Forth that nobody tried to make a CGI packagage
Forth 201x proposal.

Have Fun!
-Helmar