I looked up AWK on wikipedia and was led to the "Data-driven programming" page, which seems to be talking about the kind of thing you mean. https://en.wikipedi

I looked up AWK on wikipedia and was led to the "Data-driven programming" page, which seems to be talking about the kind of thing you mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_programming