TextTransformer 1.6.1

TextTransformer 1.6.1 is a worldwide unique tool that soon will become the indispensable helper for your various text remodeling tasks.

The examples are demonstrating that the TextTransformer is a word processing in the true meaning of the word: it makes possible to process the contents of a text by analyzing (parsing) the syntactic form of plain texts.

You easily can use the TextTransformer, even if you never heard about the technologies on which the program is based. The TextTransformer integrates a parser generator, a debugger and a c++ interpreter into a single workbench.

TextTransformer can analyze texts and transform them. For this you have to write simple rules describing the structure of the source text and determining how the parts it shall be transformed to the target text. A single rule for example is enough to make multiple replacements of words. Existing examples can be modified to achieve quick results. Every change can be tested immediately. For this, the TextTransformer allows stepwise transformations in a debugger, where you can see immediately what happens. So the development even of complex programs becomes a game. Simple rules can be combined to arbitrary complex programs. Even grammars of programming languages can be described, e.g. to translate them into another one.

The free version (not time limited) has nearly all possibilities to analyze texts and to transform them. After you have installed the TextTransformer, the functionality of the standard version (see below) can be tested for 30 days.

The standard version has an additional transformation manager to transform groups of files interactively. This version also has augmented interpreter capabilities: subexpressions of tokens can be accessed and containers can be used.

Major Features:

1. Extended LL(1)-top down technology
2. Definitions of text elements by regular expressions in POSIX style
3. Definitions of grammar rules syntactically as meta regular expressions
4. Skipping irrelevant parts of text by means of the SKIP-symbol
5. Integrated debugger
6. Integrated simple c++ interpreter
7. Syntax highlighting
8. Type checking and immediate finding of errors
9. Automatically testing
10. Interactivity, to translate selected parts of the text
11. Transformation manager to handle file groups
12. Command-line version
13. Extensive documentation

Enhancements: Multi-user compatibility

Requirements: 256 MB RAM, 50 MB hard disk space