What can I do using awk that I cannot do in Perl?

Question

I had read somewhere about one specific feature that is present in awk but not in Perl. I have failed in locating it again.

I would appreciate it if anyone here can point it out.

This might be a useless trivia, but I am still curious to know.

Answer 1

From perldoc perlvar:

Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regex. awk has to be better for something. :-)