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I’ve heard that Perl is the go-to language for string manipulation (and line noise ;). Can someone provide examples and comparisons with other language(s) to show me why?
It is very subjective, so I wouldn’t say that Perl is the best choice, but it is certainly a valid choice for string manipulation. Other alternatives are Tcl, Python, AWK, etc.
I like Perl’s capabilities because it has excellent support (better than POSIX as pointed out in the comment) for fast regexs and the implicit variables makes it easy to do basic string crunching with very little code.
If you have a *nix background a lot of what you already know will apply to Perl as well, which makes it fairly easy to pick up for a lot of people.