Good morning pez! Hope you have a great day 🙂

qwerty, dvorak or metlgd?

just don't be trying to parse html with regex ! (i was reminded of: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags )

I actually wrote a parser last year since I needed one that was .cljc compatible, although it was for XML not HTML: https://github.com/kuhumcst/cuphic/blob/master/src/dk/cst/cuphic/xml.cljc not using regex obviously 😉

Related to that I recently changed the lexer I use for a project. It's great when just a regex won't suffice. https://github.com/maciejhirsz/logos

Someone said awk! 😃

I have on my TODO to make a library bringing awk semantics to Clojure. It is the missing piece!

We already have tech ml dataset. What's missing?

tech ml what? 😃

https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset

Tablecloth might also be worth a look - it's a thin interface on top of tech.ml.dataset. I'm not too conformable with AWK, but I prefer tablecloth/tech.ml to numpy :) https://github.com/scicloj/tablecloth#usage-example

Didn't know about that. Looks nice! Must play with it a bit to see if I miss enough from awk to keep that TODO item. 😃

Or just make the AWK library anyway just 'cause 🤓

Call it awk-ward 😄

https://github.com/sharplispers/clawk/blob/master/clawk.lisp

had my share of those sed/awk too… for extracting and analysing log files in production

(cue the “now you have two problems” joke)

(but then, I guess those are the “good old days” - nowadays it’s ELK/EFK…)

Never understood that joke, tbh.

Why solve regex shaped problems w/o regexes?

I think the joke’s referring to when one’s abusing the power of awk to do things so sophisticated that a “proper” program may be more appropriate

or just abusing the ability to inline the whole program as a command line argument

aka one-liner

I only recall that joke being used in regards to regular expressions.

memetic variants? lol any sufficiently successful meme’s gonna have many spin-offs

maybe “Turing’s tarpit” sum up the whole argument

Some things sound so cool/fun that people attribute truth to them without reflecting.

(but then, we have things like code-golf, packing a whole game into a QR code, or 3D demo inside some really small code, and I can appreciate those)

As I see it: awk is great for awk shaped problems, wether the solution is sophisticated or not

So are shell scripts. Though, I've written my share of unreadable scripts.

Lately, I've found myself rewriting some stuff using Babashka, even though most awk scripts grow significantly from that. But one of these has interactive programming, the other hasn't. And we're at where I think Clojure should be blessed with more awk-like semantics. 😃

clojure and awk, each on their own, is already fairly powerful… and when you combine them…

there’s goin’ to be fireworks

🎆