https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tags/data-records/ Recent content in Data Records on Under the Anvil Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:36:30 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/bookshelf/programming-perl-the-camel-that-still-knows-the-desert/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:36:30 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/bookshelf/programming-perl-the-camel-that-still-knows-the-desert/ What kind of problems was Perl built to solve? Perl, just like awk, continues to thrive because it solves a particular class of problems exceptionally well. Find out from this week’s book review. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/text-processing/thinking-in-transformations-why-textsmiths-love-search-and-replace/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:58:28 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/text-processing/thinking-in-transformations-why-textsmiths-love-search-and-replace/ One of the greatest changes that happens when someone becomes a textsmith is not learning a new command. It is learning a new way of thinking. This second of the three-part series on working with streams delves into the psychology of a textsmith. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/text-processing/before-you-reach-for-sed-master-bash-parameter-expansion/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:28:53 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/text-processing/before-you-reach-for-sed-master-bash-parameter-expansion/ One of the habits that gradually changes a person’s shell scripting style is discovering that Bash can manipulate text on its own.