# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. # Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and # the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. # You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| txr: txr (pattern-based text extraction language) txr: txr: TXR is a pragmatic, convenient tool ready to take on your daily txr: hacking challenges with its dual personality: its whole-document txr: pattern matching and extraction language for scraping information from txr: arbitrary text sources, and its powerful data-processing language to txr: slice through problems like a hot knife through butter. Many tasks txr: can be accomplished with TXR "one liners" directly from your system txr: prompt. TXR is relatively new: the project started in 2009. txr: txr: