Source: so old it's lost
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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I use perl for that stuff (mostly automation) that's a bit too complex for bash, but doesn't need a proper project. Modern people would use python for this kind of thing. But, I'm too old to change!
and perl is orders of magnitude faster than python for document parsing