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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:24:55 -0700
From:      merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To:        Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Any awk gurus on the list?
Message-ID:  <868w40izhk.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <23BA961B74BA2B5CA8B523F9@utd65257.utdallas.edu> (Paul Schmehl's message of "Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:12:20 -0500")
References:  <23BA961B74BA2B5CA8B523F9@utd65257.utdallas.edu>

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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> writes:

Paul> Yes, I know I could do this easily in Perl.  I'm doing this to try
Paul> and improve my understanding of awk.

To what end?

Every modern system that can run awk can also run Perl.  Why not
concentrate on Perl?

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