Announce: PySgrep -- Structured grep

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave Kuhlman wrote:

Wow! Coooool!

Not so long time ago I asked if there is a wrapper for sgrep.
Thanks a lot!
 
> I've made a Python wrapper for sgrep.
> 
> Here is a brief description of sgrep from the sgrep home page:
> 
>    "sgrep (structured grep) is a tool for searching and indexing text,
>    SGML,XML and HTML files and filtering text streams using structural
>    criteria. The data model of sgrep is based on regions, which are
>    nonempty substrings of text. Regions are typically occurrences of
>    constant strings, SGML-tags, or meaningful text elements, which are
>    recognizable through some delimiting strings or the builtin SGML, XML
>    and HTML parser. Regions can be arbitrarily long, arbitrarily
>    overlapping, and arbitrarily nested.
>    
>    "Sgrep is a convenient tool for making queries to almost any kind of
>    text files with some well kown structure. These include programs, mail
>    folders, news folders, HTML, SGML, etc... With relatively simple
>    queries you can display mail messages by their subject or sender,
>    extract titles or links or any regions from HTML files, function
>    prototypes from C or make complex queries to SGML files based on the
>    DTD of the file."
> 
> You can find my Python wrapper at:
> 
>     http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pysgrep-1.0a.tar.gz
> 
> See the file README.pysgrep in the PySgrep distribution for
> information on how to build it.  I've only built it on Linux.
> 
> I've written some documentation on PySgrep and how to use it.
> It's at:
> 
>     http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pysgrep.html
> 
> You can read about sgrep itself at:
> 
>     http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html
> 
> Comments and suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
>   - Dave
> 
> 

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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