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79072805 2''' $RCSfile: s2p.man,v $$Revision: 4.1 $$Date: 92/08/07 18:29:24 $
8d063cd8 3'''
4''' $Log: s2p.man,v $
79072805 5''' Revision 4.1 92/08/07 18:29:24 lwall
6'''
9ef589d8 7''' Revision 4.0.1.1 91/06/07 12:19:57 lwall
8''' patch4: s2p now handles embedded newlines better and optimizes common idioms
9'''
fe14fcc3 10''' Revision 4.0 91/03/20 01:58:07 lwall
11''' 4.0 baseline.
12'''
a687059c 13''' Revision 3.0 89/10/18 15:35:09 lwall
14''' 3.0 baseline
15'''
378cc40b 16''' Revision 2.0 88/06/05 00:15:59 root
17''' Baseline version 2.0.
8d063cd8 18'''
19'''
20.de Sh
21.br
22.ne 5
23.PP
24\fB\\$1\fR
25.PP
26..
27.de Sp
28.if t .sp .5v
29.if n .sp
30..
31.de Ip
32.br
33.ie \\n.$>=3 .ne \\$3
34.el .ne 3
35.IP "\\$1" \\$2
36..
37'''
38''' Set up \*(-- to give an unbreakable dash;
39''' string Tr holds user defined translation string.
40''' Bell System Logo is used as a dummy character.
41'''
378cc40b 42.tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr
8d063cd8 43.ie n \{\
378cc40b 44.ds -- \(*W-
45.if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch
46.if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch
8d063cd8 47.ds L" ""
48.ds R" ""
49.ds L' '
50.ds R' '
51'br\}
52.el\{\
53.ds -- \(em\|
54.tr \*(Tr
55.ds L" ``
56.ds R" ''
57.ds L' `
58.ds R' '
59'br\}
60.TH S2P 1 NEW
61.SH NAME
62s2p - Sed to Perl translator
63.SH SYNOPSIS
64.B s2p [options] filename
65.SH DESCRIPTION
66.I S2p
67takes a sed script specified on the command line (or from standard input)
68and produces a comparable
69.I perl
70script on the standard output.
71.Sh "Options"
72Options include:
73.TP 5
74.B \-D<number>
75sets debugging flags.
76.TP 5
77.B \-n
78specifies that this sed script was always invoked with a sed -n.
79Otherwise a switch parser is prepended to the front of the script.
80.TP 5
81.B \-p
82specifies that this sed script was never invoked with a sed -n.
83Otherwise a switch parser is prepended to the front of the script.
84.Sh "Considerations"
85The perl script produced looks very sed-ish, and there may very well be
86better ways to express what you want to do in perl.
87For instance, s2p does not make any use of the split operator, but you might
88want to.
89.PP
90The perl script you end up with may be either faster or slower than the original
91sed script.
92If you're only interested in speed you'll just have to try it both ways.
93Of course, if you want to do something sed doesn't do, you have no choice.
9ef589d8 94It's often possible to speed up the perl script by various methods, such
95as deleting all references to $\e and chop.
8d063cd8 96.SH ENVIRONMENT
97S2p uses no environment variables.
98.SH AUTHOR
99Larry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
100.SH FILES
101.SH SEE ALSO
102perl The perl compiler/interpreter
103.br
104a2p awk to perl translator
105.SH DIAGNOSTICS
106.SH BUGS
107.rn }` ''