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 include:
sed script was always invoked with a
`sed -n'. Otherwise a switch parser is prepended to the front of
the script.
sed script was never invoked with a `sed -n'.
Otherwise a switch parser is prepended to the front of the script.
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.
S2p uses no environment variables.