on awk and converting it to perl automatically

• grep lines from log for last 10 mints (calling awk from perl, awk to perl, a2p)
• get value from a awk system command
• Perl equivlanet of simple awk
• perl awk
• gawk to perl
• Script to manipulate data is not giving me any output
• Awk and Perl unique features
• Awk usage in perl
• Convert from awk to perl
• UNIX 'command' equivalents in Perl
• sed awk to perl help
• Multidimensional Hash implementation/usage
• trying to convert from awk to perl
• using variable in search and replace
• Extracting data from each line that matches a email address from a Log file (Tab delimited)
• awk like question in perl
• awk...ward
• awk/perl?
• Selective substitution: not in Perl?
• AWK and Perl on UNIX
• chomp a newline in awk

After looking at awk a second time, I don't think I'd ever use it :)

I'd stick with perl, see

• perlintro
• Tutorials: Pattern Matching, Regular Expressions, and Parsing
• perlretut
• perlrequick
• split
• perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions
• FMTYEWTK About Mass Edits In Perl
• Uncommon* but Useful Perl Command Line Options for One-liners
• Re^2: perl -pi -e s'/^\s+//'g $file
• Re: perl -pi -e s'/^\s+//'g $file
• Re^2: perl -pi -e s'/^\s+//'g $file
• Re^3: perl -pi -e s'/^\s+//'g $file
• Re^4: perl -pi -e s'/^\s+//'g $file
• Beginning Perl (free) Chapter 6: Files and Data
• Modern Perl: Chapter 9: Managing Real Programs > Files
• use
• autodie
• open
• strict
• warnings
• perlintro
• perlretut
• perlrequick
• Beginning Perl (free) Chapter 6: Files and Data
• Modern Perl: Chapter 9: Managing Real Programs > Files