Why Learn Awk? (2016)
Last week I threw out AWK and replaced it with Ruby (Could've been Python, Perl or PHP even).Because AWK is not suited for CSV. Please prove me wrong!I had to parse 9million lines. Some of which contain "quoted records", others, same column, are unquoted. Some contain comma's, in the fields, most don't. CSV is like that: more like a guideline than actual sense.Two hours of googling and hacking later, I gave up and rewrote the importer in Ruby, in under 5 minutes.Lesson learned: I'll stay clear of AWK, when I know a oneliner of Ruby (or Python) can solve it just as well. Because I know for certain the latter can deal with all the edgecases that will certainly pop up.