Choose

Jul 20, 2023

Human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk

This is choose, a human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and sometimes awk.

Features

  • terse field selection syntax similar to Python’s list slices
  • negative indexing from end of line
  • optional start/end index
  • zero-indexed
  • reverse ranges
  • aslightly faster than cut for sufficiently long inputs, much faster than awk
  • regular expression field separators using Rust’s regex syntax


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