in reply to Parsing a line of text

Hi,

there is something which makes me laughing:

"I have been requested to write a script in my spare time [...]"
That means someone is thinking you can do this, but in the same sentence you say:
"[...] Since I am not anywhere ner a programmer [...]"
That lets me ask: Why haven't you said: I'm not a programmer, so I'm not the right person to do this. And by no means in my spare time forcing me to ask someone else programming the script?

Best regards
McA

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Re^2: Parsing a line of text
by TCPDump (Initiate) on Mar 13, 2013 at 17:43 UTC

    I have said that to my management, but no one on our team is anywhere near a programmer....we deal with network, information and system security...unfortunantly the *nix team doesn't want to do this, so systems security such as this falls under our umbrella.

    I do, however, see the need for quick scripting languages so I am going to learn Perl as my time permits.

    As for asking others, useful answers "usually" come from people that know how to do what is needed and someone like me could end up at a result that is neither elegant or takes into account 'known' problems. If I learn from the people that know how dto do what is needed then I learn the correct way to do it as well as...I can read proper code

    TCP

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