# Data-driven programming | | In computer programming, **Data-driven programming** is a programming paradigm in which the program statements describe the data to be matched and the processing required rather than defining a sequence of steps to be taken. Standard examples of data-driven languages are the text-processing languages sed and AWK, and the document transformation language XSLT, where the data is a sequence of lines in an input stream – these are thus also known as line-oriented languages – and pattern matching is primarily done via regular expressions or line numbers. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Data-driven programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_programming) | [[awk]] [[sed]]