perl

[brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu]

In article <18498 at well.sf.ca.us> gregs at well.sf.ca.us (Greg Strockbine) writes:
> I'm just starting to look at perl. Is there a good reason
> to use it instead of sed, awk, etc.?

Sure: it can handle much longer lines. Much much longer lines. It can do
anything your shell can. It has a reasonably pleasant syntax.

It is, on the other hand, somewhat more difficult to program efficiently
than a judicious combination of sh, sed, and awk.

---Dan