Text-Processing on Under the Anvil https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tags/text-processing/ Recent content in Text-Processing on Under the Anvil Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:36:30 +0200 Programming Perl — The Camel That Still Knows the Desert 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. Book Review: Effective awk Programming, The book that teaches you to think like a Textsmith https://blog.thetextsmith.com/bookshelf/book-review-effective-awk-programming/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:15:16 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/bookshelf/book-review-effective-awk-programming/ This is a review of a classic book that does not only teach you the art of text-processing, but eases you into the world of programming.