Every time I set out to use awk for some one time task I struggle to express what I need and end up saying fuck it and fire up vim and do exactly what I want with some quick macros.
I usually say duck it and dust off my shiny Perl necklace
I usually persevere and get it done in awk but then find the next time I need awk that I don't remember any of it and can barely understand my own examples.