The Best 48 Perl Alternatives

  • GNU sed

    sed (stream editor) is a Unix utility that parses text and implements a programming language which can apply transformations to such text. It reads input line by line...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Cygwin

  • SMX

    SMX: Dynamic HTML generation via a simple server macro language with highspeed database support, image generation, perl & ruby module support and much more. ...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Objective-J

    objective-j is a programming language developed as part of the cappuccino web development framework.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Gema

    Gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. In general, it reads an input file and copies it to an output file, while...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • AWK

    AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Cygwin

  • TXR

    TXR is a pragmatic, convenient data munging language oriented toward processing of text from files or streams, using multiple programming paradigms. It is influenced by...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD