267 ;;Quote: AWK is designed for simple information retrieval, text manipulation, and report generation

267+;;Quote: AWK avoids the trappings of conventional programming languages; uses simple, concise expressions and default handling of common cases

268 ;;Quote: AWK program consists of patterns and actions; if an input line matches a pattern, its action occurs

QuoteRef: ahoAV4_1979 ;;268-70 patterns for matching text lines: beginning of file, end of file, regular expressions of characters and character classes, relations on system and user refined variables, combinations of all these, many system variables describing a line eg $1 is the first field and FS is the field separator character.

271 ;;Quote: Awk can process all lines between an initial and final pattern (a pattern range); reduces the need to use variables

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

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