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I'm writing a Cocoa app for Leopard that, given a directory of text files, will scan through them, looking for a search pattern (let's pretend they're source files and I just want to find C comments). It will then present the results to the user. While I think I could certainly do this with Cocoa, it feels like it's really meant to be handed off to a scripting language. But which would be better for this task and why? I'm thinking with going with Ruby (I own a book on it, but I've never had a good reason to learn it too well), but I'm certainly open to others (Perl obviously springs to mind). The kind of searching I'll be doing isn't too advanced, but I would like to integrate this into my Cocoa app one way or another. How should I best approach this?
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1. COIs that all your app does? If so, why are you reinventing the wheel? Just use grep.
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2. CONot trying to re-invent the wheel. Trying to figure out how the wheel works.
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