Any awk gurus on the list?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> writes:

Paul> Yes, I know I could do this easily in Perl.  I'm doing this to try
Paul> and improve my understanding of awk.

To what end?

Every modern system that can run awk can also run Perl.  Why not
concentrate on Perl?

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