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• Author: Aurelio Jargas
• License: GPL
• First release: 2001-02-23
• Website: http://aurelio.net/projects/txt2regex/

Txt2regex is a Regular Expression Wizard that converts human sentences to regexes. In a simple interactive console interface, the user answer questions and the program build the regexes for more than 20 programs, like Vim, Emacs, Perl, PHP, Python, Procmail and OpenOffice.org. It is a Shell Script 100% written with Bash builtin commands. No compilation or extra commands are needed, just download and run.

Txt2regex will work in ANY system bash works, because it's a bash-only program. This includes Cygwin and Cygwin XFree also.

After expanding the tarball, simply run the program directly. But if you want it installed on your system, or in other language besides english, use the make command.

• Just english: untar and run
• With i18n: untar, make install and run

untar:

tar xvzf txt2regex-VERSION.tgz
cd txt2regex-VERSION

run:

./txt2regex.sh

make install (as root, system install):

make install
/usr/bin/txt2regex

make install (as user, local install):

make install BINDIR=. LOCALEDIR=po
./txt2regex

Note 1: Play with BINDIR, LOCALEDIR and DESTDIR variables to change the default install paths.

Note 2: Txt2regex only works in Bash version >= 2.04.

All regexes and rules the program knows about were extensively tested by hand or by the test-suite program. When the program can't be reached or executed on my machine, the rules were taken:

• From the program documentation
• Or missing it, from the "Mastering Regular Expressions" O'Reilly book
• Or missing it, from Internet documents (Oh no!)

Programs I've tested here:

• ed: GNU ed version 0.2
• mawk: mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996
• gawk: GNU Awk 3.0.6
• grep: grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
• egrep: egrep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
• find: GNU find version 4.1
• javascript: netscape-4.77
• mysql: Ver 11.13 Distrib 3.23.36
• ooo: OpenOffice.org 1.1.0
• perl: v5.6.0 built for i386-linux
• php: 4.0.6
• postgres: psql (PostgreSQL) 7.1.2
• procmail: procmail v3.15.1 2001/01/08
• python: Python 2.1
• sed: GNU sed version 3.02.80
• tcl: 8.3
• vi: Nvi 1.79 (10/23/96)
• vim: VIM - Vi IMproved 5.8 (2001 May 31)

"I feel like I could... Like I could... TAKE OVER THE WORLD"

ca             catalan           Carles (ChAoS)
de_DE          german            Jan Parthey
en             english           Aurelio Jargas
es_ES          spanish           Diego Moya
fr_FR          french            wwp
id_ID     bahasa indonesian      Muhamad Faizal
it_IT          italian           Daniele Pizzolli
ja            japanese           Hajime Dei
pl_PL          polish            Chris Piechowicz
pt_BR    brazilian portuguese    Aurelio Jargas
ro_RO         romanian           Robert Claudiu Gheorghe

A nice way to contribute with the project, is to translate its messages to your own language. Just get the po/txt2regex.pot file and translate it, on the msgstr lines. In doubt, ask.

A: To try to make simple regexes less painful for the beginners.

A: To have a reliable source for regexes differences between programs.

A: To have coding fun &:)

A: Basically, for me to learn the new bash2 concepts as arrays, i18n and advanced variable expansion. They rule!

A: The program do use the bash environment variables $LINES and $COLUMNS to get the actual screen size. Those MUST be exported variables, or you'll be stuck at the default 80x25 size. Try:

/bin/bash -c 'echo $COLUMNS $LINES'

If you don't get the screen size, do:

echo export COLUMNS LINES >> ~/.bash_profile

A: To find your bash version, the program uses the $BASH_VERSION environment variable that is available in all bash versions.

If some alien has possessed your machine and your environment don't have this variable, try to set it by hand. Check with

echo $BASH_VERSION

If this variable is ok, but bash --version returns other version, check if your bash is really /bin/bash:

which bash

If it's not /bin/bash, you MUST change the first line of the script to your bash's right path. Suppose you have the bash binary in your $HOME because the system's bash is old, just change the first line of the program to:

#!/home/YOU/bin/bash

Or if you cannot change the program file, call it with bash:

bash ./txt2regex

Sux, but worx.

A: Inside lists [], the string is a visual representation of a literal TAB character, for programs which doesn't support [\t].

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