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Re: awk imitation with guile

Russ McManus writes:
 > Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
 > 
 > > Is there an elegant way of imitating awk functionality (not syntax) based on
 > > guile's built-in string-fun and regex modules?
 > > There is an awk imitation for r4rs on the repository which uses its own
 > > string manipulation functions, but I'm not sure about the licensing 
 > > conditions (that's a problem with a lot of the repository stuff), and using 
 > > guile-builtins might preserve performance too.
 > 
 > The awk macro in guile-scsh might be what you're looking for.  You
 > will probably need to read the relevant section of the Scsh manual
 > to use this macro effectively.
 > 
 > It is quite powerful, but performance is suspect, at least in guile.
 > Please let me know if you have any question/problems.

Thanks, but it seems that the scsh license is incompatible with GNU GPL .
Or is the awk macro covered by fair usage?

      Klaus Schilling