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TextTransformer 1.4.1, The Last Text Processor You Need
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Jul 3, 2008 17:58:12 | | Author email | anikolaev@3d2f.com | | Author | Nikolaev Alexander Dmitrievich |
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TextTransformer is described as a tool for transforming texts (you bet!).
But, in fact, this short description is almost humiliating for this great tool! Because real possibilities of TextTransformer are stretched from trivial word replacements in the text file to creation of new scripting languages (read it twice, guy; it’s true).
The trick is: you need some kind of programmer’s mindset to use TextTransformer. But if you have it, you become almighty in your everyday textual tasks. Look: It’s just a handy tool for the construction of LL(*) parsers with it’s respective rules (=productions). Or, rather, not only a constructor, but a full-featured IDE for creating, testing, debugging, browsing, editing and applying parsers and transformators. Parsers are described in the usual «set of terminals and non-terminals» form you’ll be comfortable with, and patterns for terminals (=tokens) are good old regexps. The production rules you’ll use have unlimited power, as you can use a subset of C++ within them (and entire parser/production suite can be «rendered» to a C++ program, as well as applied just from the TextTransformer interface).The editor, the project browser and the debugger in TextTransformer meet the highest standards; while formal testing ability is much higher than you’ve ever seen. «
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