You can never go down the drain...

[John W. Baxter]

In article <8qu0h6$rm7$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, psnj <psnj at my-deja.com> 
wrote:

> In article <jwbnews-39B911.07281327092000 at news.olympus.net>,
>   "John W. Baxter" <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.prefab.com/textmachine.html
> 
> Neat. Reminds me a bit of OmniMark's "find rules". After programming
> with these for a while, I found going back to the traditional Unix-y
> ones kinda unpleasant, especially when they differ syntactically (grep
> vs emacs vs python etc).
> 
>    http://www.omnimark.com/doc/concept/630.htm

I should have mentioned two things:
  TextMachine is Macintosh only
   Although the language is "different" the underlying RE engine is one 
of the "standard" ones that are available (I nearly said "regular")...or 
more accurately one of the ones that were available in the mid 1990s 
time frame.

  --John

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com