s2p

 

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 S2P(1)           Perl Programmers Reference Guide          S2P(1)
 
 
 
NAME
        s2p - Sed to Perl translator
 
SYNOPSIS
        s2p [options] filename
 
DESCRIPTION
        s2p takes a sed script specified on the command line (or
        from standard input) and produces a comparable perl script
        on the standard output.
 
        Options
 
        Options include:
 
        -D<number>
             sets debugging flags.
 
        -n   specifies that this sed script was always invoked
             with a sed -n.  Otherwise a switch parser is
             prepended to the front of the script.
 
        -p   specifies that this sed script was never invoked with
             a sed -n.  Otherwise a switch parser is prepended to
             the front of the script.
 
        Considerations
 
        The perl script produced looks very sed-ish, and there may
        very well be better ways to express what you want to do in
        perl.  For instance, s2p does not make any use of the
        split operator, but you might want to.
 
        The perl script you end up with may be either faster or
        slower than the original sed script.  If you're only
        interested in speed you'll just have to try it both ways.
        Of course, if you want to do something sed doesn't do, you
        have no choice.  It's often possible to speed up the perl
        script by various methods, such as deleting all references
        to $\ and chop.
 
 ENVIRONMENT
        s2p uses no environment variables.
 
AUTHOR
        Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
 
FILES
SEE ALSO
         perl   The perl compiler/interpreter
 
         a2p    awk to perl translator
 
 
 DIAGNOSTICS
 BUGS
 2001-08-09                 perl v5.6.0                     S2P(1)

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