If I remember correctly, I believe perl was created to combine the power of sed and awk into a single tool so you didn't have keep switching back and fourth bet

If I remember correctly, I believe perl was created to combine the power of sed and awk into a single tool so you didn't have keep switching back and fourth between the two. Personally, I would suggest AWK for one to two liners when doing some one time data transform tasks. Anything more complicated and I would suggest a more "fully-fledged scripting language"