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@@ -21,16 +21,18 @@ .\"IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED .\"WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -.TH "TXR" 1 2012-01-26 "Utility Commands" "Txr Text Extractor" "Kaz Kylheku" +.TH "TXR" 1 2012-02-05 "Utility Commands" "Txr Text Processing Language" "Kaz Kylheku" .SH NAME -txr \- text extractor (version 55) +txr \- text processing language (version 56) .SH SYNOPSIS .B txr [ options ] query-file { data-file }* .sp .SH DESCRIPTION .B TXR -is a language oriented toward extracting text from files or streams -using multi-line, recursive pattern matching. A +is a language oriented toward processing text from files or streams, using +multiple programming paradigms. + +A .B TXR script is called a query, and it specifies a pattern which matches (a prefix of) an entire file, or multiple files. Patterns can consists of large @@ -58,10 +60,10 @@ file for the place where an entire sub-query matches, for collecting lists, and for combining sub-queries using logical conjunction, disjunction and negation, and numerous others. -Furthermore, embedded within TXR is a powerful Lisp dialect, described in the -section TXR LISP far below. TXR Lisp supports functional and imperative -programming, and provides data types such as symbols, strings, vectors, hash -tables with weak reference support, and arbitrary-precision (bignum integers). +Furthermore, embedded within TXR is a powerful Lisp dialect. TXR Lisp supports +functional and imperative programming, and provides data types such as symbols, +strings, vectors, hash tables with weak reference support, lazy lists, and +arbitrary-precision (bignum integers). .SH ARGUMENTS AND OPTIONS |