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I agree with both statements. I still think that Sed & Awk is the better starting reference, as it begins with basic tools.

Deep dives are fine, but sometimes you just wanto to get a few toes in the water.

I'd argue that if you've got performance issues with regexes, you're (arguably) abusing the tool.



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