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• SilasX 12y ago
  On that note, awk shows up a lot in the shortest solutions because of the ease with which it parses input files. I haven't used perl myself, so can anyone comment on the merits of perl vs awk here? They often compete for this use case.
  • grondilu 12y ago
    Oversimplifying a bit, I'm going to tell you that Perl was initially conceived as a mix between C, sed and awk. So, there are quite a few awk idioms that are directly translatable in Perl. As a matter of fact, there even is a section dedicated to awk in perltrap[1], enumerating the differences between the two languages. 1. http://perldoc.perl.org/perltrap.html#Awk-Traps http://perldoc.perl.org/perltrap.html#Awk-Traps