Re: Text processing on VMS

On 10/13/24 10:04 AM, David Meyer wrote:

I've got a text file with data that I want to select lines matching
certain character strings, then extract string values from the selected
lines by character position. On Unix, I would use awk or Perl. Does VMS
have a similar tool, should I use my favorite programming language and
call the STR$ RTL, can I write a TPU script to do this, or should I
transfer the file to a Unix box and user awk or Perl? ;)

Perl is available.  It's part of the base install on OpenVMS x86.  For
Alpha and Itanium you can get an installer at:
https://vmssoftware.com/products/perl/
Python is also available.  While what you want can be done with DCL or
TPU, that's generally more pain for less gain.