Hello

I have a few scripts written in visual basic that open text files and write back out text files after modifying the content. Is it possible to run visual basic scripts under wine or is this beyond the scope of wine?

Thanks
John=

reads text files, modifies content, then writes them back out... thats all? why would you want to run that in Wine... you could write a bash script in 30 minutes to do it probably...

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 17:36 -0500, doh123 wrote:
Agreed, but use awk or its GNU version gawk. Its my first choice for
anything like that. It runs fast and awk scripts are small and fast to
write. I can't think of anything I've needed to do to a text file that
gawk wouldn't do.

You can pick it up from its manpage but that's pretty terse, so look for
an online tutorial or get hold of a copy of "sed & awk", an O'Reilly
book. Time spent getting to grips with awk is never wasted.

Martin