I'm not considering adding general structured formats like XML or JSON, as they don't fit AWK's "fields and records" model or its simplistic data structure (the

I'm not considering adding general structured formats like XML or JSON, as they don't fit AWK's "fields and records" model or its simplistic data structure (the associative array) very well. However, I have considered adding JSON Lines support, where each line is a record, and fields are indexable using the new @"named-field" syntax (possibly nested like @"foo.bar").