Re: The "asort" extension (Was: feature proposal: expand associative arrays in lexicographic order ...)
"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>
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At 2026-08-26T06:06:42-0600, Stan Marsh wrote: > From: Zachary Santer > Whenever I see the phrase "sed and awk", I immediately think "No need > for sed; whatever sed can do, AWK can do and do better". ...and whatever AWK can do, sed can do as well. ;-) https://sed.sourceforge.io/local/scripts/dc.sed.html You can also get a remarkable amount done with dc(1). AWK is a very nice language and I've mused elsewhere that it seems to occupy--or be terribly close to--a sweet spot in language design. But it's just one tool in the box. A crafty person has many tools. Regards, Branden
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