Perl has BEGIN and END as well, and when using it with -n or -p for line processing mode uses -F to set word boundaries just like awk. In fact, it shared many

Perl has BEGIN and END as well, and when using it with -n or -p for line processing mode uses -F to set word boundaries just like awk. In fact, it shared many flags and features with awk, which it was meant to be able to be used as a more powerful version of the same tool.