Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!msb From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Basic on UNIX - ... Message-ID: <401@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 21:15:25 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.401 Posted: Wed Feb 13 21:15:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 22:14:13 EST References: <852@houxf.UUCP> Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 17 Summary: Consider awk for your example stewart@houxf.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-435 x0705) writes: > While I normally disparage BASIC along with the rest of you, there are > a few places it's useful. I tend to use it for jobs that take too much > arithmetic for shell, but are too small to bother writing in C > FOR I = 1 TO 43 > PRINT "FOO";I > NEXT I My preference would be: awk