Once more - the book

v0.99.42

Issue #454 - Move the specification to its own file

specs 1.0.0 beta

v1.0.0-beta

Issue #446 - Fix RPM build to tolerate hyphen (#447)

Specs Version 0.9.9 - reissue

What's Changed

• MSI package & standalone executable for Windows
• .pkg package for Mac OS
• RPM for Linux
• .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian
• Visual Studio infra for building for Windows
• Improved guessing of Python version
• New spec units: SPLITW and SPLITF for splitting input records by words or fields into multiple output records. These new spec units support optional custom separators, OF clauses (with the same semantics as SUBSTRING), and range output placement (e.g. splitw 1-10).
• A more exact exact() function

Note: Installing from package does not include Python support on Windows.

0.9.5-stable

What's Changed

• The exact() function prototype for compatibility.
• Locale support in the pretty function.
• Multiple field and word separators.
• The unthreaded mode is now the default.
• While-guard to protect against endless loops in while statements.
• Improved @Version.
• Tab-completion for the specs command (Linux only).
• A new --progress command-line switch to allow the user to monitor progress in reading records.
• Bug fixes

Full Changelog: v0.9.2-final...0.9.5-stable

Version 0.9.6

• Support for newer Linux distros (newer gcc)
• Support for Visual Studio and latest Windows versions
• Alignment with C++ coding standards

v0.9

15-Aug-2022: Version 0.9 is here

What's New:

• Allow elision of then clause in final if to include entire record
• Allow specifying a source command with the --inCmd or -C command line parameter
• New functions: splus, wplus, fplus.
• Some under-the-hood improvements