[Wolves] Character stripper

[Matthew Revell]

sparkes said:

> BamBams quite right, just upfront, my first thoughts where sed and awk
> but I don't know them myself.  Writing perl to do what you want would be
> quick as it is pretty much what perl 1 was written to do.

Surely that's not the point tho'. I get the fact that Perl is great at
string handling and has reg ex functionality coming out its ears but what
I want to do is something that lots of people need to do and, so, what's
the point in us all writing our own Perl script to do it? If that was the
general attitude, computing would never have got beyond a tiny academic
ghetto.

> Vi on the hand is a genius solution.  All you need to know is the
> correct command to enter I can't be arsed to try and work it out ;-)

There, you've said it. I need to know the correct command. This isn't me
being lazy, it's just a matter of efficiency. It's like me using a Swiss
army knife when I know that all I'll ever want to do is to uncork wine
bottles. There are jobs and there are a number of tools that will do those
jobs. Perl is one tool but it requires a bit more effort from me.
Demoronizer - it appears - is another tool, that does exactly what I need,
with virtually no effort on my part. Now, unless I'm missing the point,
surely I'm better off using Demoronizer.

> C++ would be a marginally better solution than C and lots better than
> pure ones and zeros but I wouldn't ... oh wait that was a joke ;-)

:)