Re: Awk script running in QShell

I have great respect for awk. But reading this thread makes me
appreciate why Perl was invented.

A lot of people bandy about the saying "use the right tool for the
job". But most people have relatively limited space in their brains to
store tools. So it often pays to learn a small number of really good
but versatile tools.

(Perl in particular was designed so that it could do what awk can do,
without sacrificing much in terms of conciseness or ease of use. Plus
of course Perl can do a lot more than awk.)

(And no, I don't know Perl. I did try to learn it, but the space in my
meager tool shed where Perl would have gone is already mostly occupied
by Python.)

John Y.