<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I heard good things about Python. I don't think PHP is suitable for<br>

text processing; it is more for presentation (webpages).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>PHP was originally deployed only as a way to serve up dynamic web
pages. However, it now has a standalone mode. It has full regular
expression support and is pretty fast (it needs to be in a web
context). Given that PHP 5 has pretty good object-oriented programming
support (similar to Java), it's not a bad choice at all. It's OOP
support is (IMHO) certainly better than Perl's.<br><br>:Darren.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>  :Darren :Pearce<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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