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by nimrody
1602 days ago
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If you think of Ruby as a more readable / maintainable Perl -- it's much better suited to these text processing tasks. Ruby even supports Perl regular expressions which are more powerful and convenient than Awk's. Some version of Ruby is usually in the base system of every Linux system (perl5 is more ubiquitous but much more cryptic) |
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No, Ruby Regexp is based on the https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo library. There are plenty of differences compared to Perl, for example `^` and `$` anchors always match start/end of lines without needing a flag, subexpression syntax uses `\g` instead of `(?N)` and so on.