Perl is a nice tool for quickly mangling textual data. I ended up using sed/awk and Python instead for much of what used Perl for back in the day. Today, data

Perl is a nice tool for quickly mangling textual data. I ended up using sed/awk and Python instead for much of what used Perl for back in the day. Today, data is often semi-structured and jq has become part of the toolbox as well.