Re: forth for log parsing

Bruce McFarling wrote:
> On Apr 7, 5:46 am, gavino <gavcom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I heard perl is good for parsing logfiles and generating
>> reports......how does forth handle this area?
> 
>> Does anyone here ever use gforth or another open forth to parse
>> logfiles?
> 
> Most tiny *nix distributions that do not have the space to support
> Perl rely on the AWK in the BusyBox for this.
> 
> Its straightforward enough to do in Forth, you just need a text
> processing wordset. If you are experimenting with it, I'd recommend
> starting with the TOOL2002 toolkit:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~neilbawd/charscan.txt

And, to mention my own stuff, there are more parsing words here:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~williams/archive/forth/strings/parsing.fs