Declined TPIPE aliases?

[vefatica]

Many TPIPE options are long, with many parameters, and are hard to remember. I am not recommending environment variables to do the job, but some way to create and use a "library" of TPIPE aliases would keep me from having to go to the help. Here's an example.

v:\> echo 222 | tpipe /replace=4,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"\x32","\x33"
333

I had to go to the help to remember the "4,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,". Here's an alternative (again, I'm not recommending envvars).

v:\> set rep=/replace=4,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,

v:\> echo 222 | tpipe %[rep]"\x32","\x33"
333

Ideal (???) might be some way to define "rep" so that I could later say

echo 222 | tpipe /rep="\x32","\x33"

 

[Joe Caverly]

Vince, this has room for improvement, but maybe this is something to consider;

@setlocal
@echo off
tpipe /grep=^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,Type],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,IncludeLineNumbers],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,IncludeFileName],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,MatchCase],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,CountMatches],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,PatternType],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,UTF8],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,IgnoreEmpty],^
%@iniread[.\%0,config,Pattern]
endlocal
quit

[config]
; Type:
;0 Restrict lines matching (for subfilters)
;1 Restrict lines NOT matching (for subfilters)
;2 Extract matches
;3 Extract matching lines (grep)
;4 Extract non-matching lines (inverse grep)
;5 Remove matching lines
;6 Remove non-matching lines
Type = 3

; IncludeLineNumbers - 1 to include the line number where the pattern was found
IncludeLineNumbers = 0

; IncludeFilename - 1 to include the filename where the pattern was found
IncludeFileName = 0

; MatchCase - 1 to do a case-sensitive comparison when matching the pattern
MatchCase = 0

; CountMatches - 1 to output a count of the number of matches
CountMatches = 0

; PatternType
; 0 Perl pattern
; 1 Egrep pattern
; 2 Brief pattern
; 3 MS Word pattern
PatternType = 0

; UTF8 - 1 to allow matching Unicode UTF8 characters
UTF8 = 0

; IgnoreEmpty - 1 to ignore empty matches
IgnoreEmpty = 0

; Pattern - the (regular expression) pattern to match
Pattern = the

Note well that the .INI file is the .BTM itself.

Example usage;

c:\users\jlc\utils>type test.txt | tgrep.btm
The
the

Example test.txt;

The
quick
brown
fox
jumped
over
the
lazy
dog

Joe

 

[djspits]

Excellent stuff, Joe.

However, this idiom does not need any changes in TC.

A single (set of) sourcefile(s) can generate a whole bunch of alias definitions that can be read-in by the user when needed. The only thing missing in cases like this is forum functionality like GitHub or GitLab to create, develop and share sources in a controlled way.

 

[vefatica]

I'm still in favor of this sort of enhancement. I don't think environment variables are the way to go ... rather some TPIPE-specific mechanism. Here's a recent (crude) attempt.

v:\> set tpgrep=/grep=3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

v:\> tpipe /input=tag.html %tpgrep,inside
inside

v:\> set tpsed=/replace=4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

v:\> echo foo | tpipe %tpsed,o,e
fee