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From: Ralf Damaschke <rwspam@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: a sed question
Date: 22 Dec 2024 00:43:40 GMT
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Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2024-12-21, Ralf Damaschke <rwspam@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Simply because you cannot imagine how to use it? No!
> 
> He explained the "because", in the immediately following text that you
> snipped:

I don't agree with his explanation.

> KMC> Seriously, the above looks like gobbledegook compared to the
> equivalent in
> KMC> AWK (or some other normal scripting langugae).  "sed" looks like
> Intercal
> KMC> (once you get beyond s/foo/bar/g).

For many people C looks like gobbledegook, too.

> KMC> I'm sure that whatever it is that OP is trying to do, it could be
> easily
> KMC> translated to (say) AWK and look much nicer.

That's probably true. I often prefer awk too, but that is not sufficient
to state "don't use sed for anything beyond the s/foo/bar/g stage". There
have been quite some tasks where I used sed.