Re^2: perl awk

So basically its a loop? Is the comparison being done on every line in reference, a single line, or some other part?

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Re^3: perl awk by educated_foo (Vicar) on Apr 09, 2013 at 23:03 UTC
Pretty much. Awk works a lot like "perl -ane", looping over lines in a file and splitting them into fields. An awk command is of the form "TEST { ACTION }", where TEST controls whether ACTION is performed. It's more involved than that, but since I learned Perl first, I rarely use awk. You might try feeding the awk command to a2p to get a perl equivalent of what it does.	[reply]