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{{language|AWK}}'''AWK''' is aan generalextraction purposeand programmingreporting language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. AWK is an example of a programmingscripting language that extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions. The power, terseness, and limitations of AWK programs and [[sed]] scripts inspired Larry Wall to write [[Perl]]. Because of their dense notation, all these languages are often used for writing one-liner programs.