(C) 2003, Tim Maher       1-34       www.TeachMePerl.com
The Awk Command
Deficiencies


Deficiencies of AWK
few, given brilliance of its design
main one is:
no way to disable input field parsing
very inefficient, if fields aren't used
another is:
no way to specify range of fields
Perl has same capabilities and more
but Perl solutions are rarely as compact