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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Basic on UNIX - ...
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 21:15:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 21:15:25 1985
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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