Text processing tools and/or languages

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 02:34:57PM -0500, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 03:42:00PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm looking for tools (if there are any) for processing a text file
> > line by line sequentially.
> > 
>  This is how most of linux works :) 
> 
Yes, but it's *not* how sed and awk work. :-)

Both sed and awk feed the whole of the text past each line of the
script in turn, they don't process the text file line by line.  You
don't have a concept of "where you are in the text" as you progress
down your program.

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Chris Green