txt2regex1

Usage

Overview

txt2regex is a regular expression wizard that converts human sentences to regexes.

In a simple interactive console interface, the user answer questions and txt2regex builds the regexes for more than 20 programs.

https://aurelio.net/projects/txt2regex/

Options

--all

Select all the available programs. Be aware that the list of available programs is long. You will need a terminal window with more than 40 lines for the user interface to fit. Also make sure that the $LINES shell variable is exported, so txt2regex can detect the current number of available lines.

-h, --help

Print the help message and quit.

--history <value>

Print a regex from the given history data. The history value is shown in the last screen of the wizard, when you quit.

--make <label>

Print a ready regex for the specified label. Inform an empty label to see the list of available labels.

--nocolor

Do not use colors.

--prog <program1,program2,...>

Specify which programs to use, separated by commas. Use --showmeta to see the complete list of available programs.

--showinfo <program>

Print regex-related info about the specified program. Use --nocolor to have a text-only output (no control characters).

--showmeta

Print a metacharacters table featuring all the programs.

-V, --version

Print the program version and quit.

--whitebg

Adjust colors for white background terminals.

Examples

Using it as a wizard (interactive interface):

txt2regex

Specify a custom selection of programs for the wizard:

txt2regex --prog perl,python,php,javascript

Getting an extensive metacharacters table:

txt2regex --showmeta

Getting regex-related information about sed:

txt2regex --showinfo sed

Replay a regex by using history data:

txt2regex --history '16421¤:01¤:'

Getting handy ready-to-use regexes for common patterns:

txt2regex --make hour
txt2regex --make number3 --prog perl
txt2regex --make date2 --all

Wizard interface

+---------------------------------------+
| Top menu                              |
| Group menu                            |
|                                       |
| Regexes of the selected programs      |
| ...                                   |
| ...                                   |
|                                       |
| History                               |
| Prompt                                |
|                                       |
| The question                          |
| The answers                           |
| ...                                   |
| ...                                   |
+---------------------------------------+

Wizard commands