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2026-04-17 07:42 UTC
@jenesuispasgoth not clear of this is because you happen to know a lot of Perl or because Perl enables you to do more than AWK?
The poll doesn’t specify it so I know votes come from preference, but I’m looking for the APL of text processing, if that makes sense
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@jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org 2026-04-17 07:46
@RosaCtrl in my case it's both. Beyond grep's/sed's (extended) regexes, I know very little awk. But Perl is far more powerful than sed+awk, since it's an actual Turing complete language. I'm obviously more comfortable with it too, since I know it relatively well, and I know many of its idioms.