Re: a sed question

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:26:15 -0600, Ed Morton wrote:
>> Awk is a mandatory POSIX tool (and so available on all POSIX-compliant
>> Unix-y systems) with a tiny but powerful language focused on just text
>> processing, perl is none of that.
>
> Perl is all of that, and more. Text processing is very much the raison 
> d’être for Perl. Because it turns out it can get quite complicated.

It's not "all of that".  Perl is not a mandatory POSIX tool.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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