The processing of text-based records is one of the oldest uses of scripting languages. Many, such as Unix's awk, sed, and grep were originally designed to aid programmers in automating tasks that involved Unix text-based configuration and log files. Of primary importance here is the regular expression, a language developed for the formal description of the lexical structure of text, and used by all of these tools.

Perl was originally designed to overcome the limitations of these tools, but has grown to be one of the most widespread general purpose scripting languages.
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