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What does this look like in practice? Does Perl have a similar control flow syntax to awk?
by rtpg 4y ago
What does this look like in practice? Does Perl have a similar control flow syntax to awk?
- jrumbut 4y agoIt actually does (to an extent). There are BEGIN and END blocks (not used that much in regular scripting but they exist). There are also a bunch of perl command flags that can make things more awk-ish or sed-ish. This random blog post gives something of the flavor. https://lifecs.likai.org/2008/10/using-perl-like-awk-and-sed.html https://lifecs.likai.org/2008/10/using-perl-like-awk-and-sed...
- kqr 4y agoThere's one fairly obvious error in that article: the fields are $F[0] etc, not @F[0]. Otherwise yes, that's a good way to make Perl look like awk. I personally translate awk concepts to more idiomatic Perl (I had no idea about -MEnglish, for example) but the concepts are still the same.
- jrumbut 4y agoYou're right, but it will still work as written.