One reason I still use perl for is its better regexes. In particular, I tend to use `perl -pe 's/regex/replacement/g'` instead of `sed 's/regex/replacement/g'`

One reason I still use perl for is its better regexes. In particular, I tend to use `perl -pe 's/regex/replacement/g'` instead of `sed 's/regex/replacement/g'` when I need to replace something. sed's regexes are just not good enough for some tasks.