Re: [PLUG] Awk *language*: was Win Subsystem for Linux2 broken

[Mark Bergman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

AWK is Turing-complete, definitely a 'language'.

I often find myself reaching for awk for doing stuff with CSV files, like:

	awk 'FS=","; BEGIN{high=0}; {sum=sum+$3 ; if ( high < $4 ) { high=$4 ; highline=NR}} ; END{print "The sum is " sum " and the high in column 4 was " high " on line " highline }'

stuff like:
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