Re: New script category!

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Clemens Giegerich wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I didn't get any respons of my last e-mail (some weeks ago). I request a
> new script category for my perltk script mkFilter.pl:
>
> mkFilter.pl is a script with GUI (perltk) for testing perl regular
> expressions, filtering input data (text) and generating template
> scripts. You can use the script like a debugger for a single regular
> expression. You can't step into an expression but you can change the
> expression and see immediately the change on the input string and all
> auto set perl variables. Input separator can be changed so it can also
> be used to work on structured data. The resulting expression can be
> written to a template script (including loop, ...), applied inplace or
> coppied to the clipboard. ...
>
> My first request for a new category was Text::Filter.
> Another (perhaps bettter) idea from a reply of my request was Regex::.
> Or both?
>
> Any comments?

I seem to recall that there were a number of responses to it, some
discussion of the relative merits of the "Text" top-level-category, and
some other random discussion.

Personally, I think that the name mkFilter is sufficiently
undescriptive that folks will have a hard time recognizing from its name
what it is, and so are likely to go past it in a listing.

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that "Regex" might be a more
appropriate category for this particular program, if I am correctly
understanding what it does.

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