Text Extractor TXR - News
posted by kkylheku, Fri 11 Jul 2014 04:23:25 PM UTC
Hi everyone,
I put out TXR 92 today.
Binaries are available from SourceForge.
posted by kkylheku, Tue 22 Nov 2011 10:08:49 PM UTC
See the new RELNOTES document.
http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/plain/RELNOTES
posted by kkylheku, Mon 10 Oct 2011 04:32:24 PM UTC
Txr now runs on Cygwin.
Some significant bugs are fixed, including a spectacular bug in function calling that dates back to 2009.
There are a bunch of new features.
- @(skip) has a :greedy keyword, which extends its usefulness
- @(trailer) and @(skip) work horizontally now too
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posted by kkylheku, Fri 07 Oct 2011 01:18:40 AM UTC
Sorry for neglecting to post news! :)
See the ChangeLog to see what's been done in 036, 037 and 038.
posted by kkylheku, Wed 27 Jan 2010 05:38:44 AM UTC
Since version 028, there has have been a few GC fixes, a bunch of regex work. Check it out!
posted by kkylheku, Sun 17 Jan 2010 03:16:02 AM UTC
I implemented regex derivatives (in addition to the existing NFA impelmentation, not as a replacement). Txr now has some powerful regex operators: intersection (&), complement (~) as well as a non-greedy closure (%).
While working on this, I found some problems in the regex syntax and fixed them.
posted by kkylheku, Thu 03 Dec 2009 11:41:27 PM UTC
I've done some code cleanup and fixed one GC-related bug.
The installation prefix now uses the widespread DESTDIR convention. E.g. you can configure with --prefix=/usr, but then do a "make install DESTDIR=temp", which will install everything into the directory temp/usr, from which you can roll up a package. That's how people prepare
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posted by kkylheku, Fri 27 Nov 2009 06:03:35 AM UTC
I introduced Valgrind integration in the garbage collector. You must pass the --valgrind option to the configure script to set this up. The basic support squashes false positive error reports from valgrind that occur during the marking phase of the mark-and-sweep, since the stack scanning can touch uninitialized data. Furthermore, the txr option [...]
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