Another plus of Perl is that it’s a little easier to specify tabs new lines and other escaped characters than in sed in my experience. In Perl I’ll usually get

Another plus of Perl is that it’s a little easier to specify tabs new lines and other escaped characters than in sed in my experience. In Perl I’ll usually get it right the first time, but in sed I might have to do something dumb like sticking a literal newline in a variable or something.