Quote: AWK is used for report generation, data transformation, and data validation

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AWK is used for simple report generation, data transformation particularly converting from one representation to another, and simple data validation. Note- it can be very complicated programs in the same way that RPG can be very complicated.

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Quote: AWK programs can be very complicated even though basic design is simple

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