rare

Working with text data in an efficient manner can require the use of specialized techniques, especially in the context of large volumes of information. Consequently, the deployment of specialized software solutions with dedicated features becomes a necessity, for an expedited process. One common technique for processing large amounts of data, is the use of regular expressions, which can provide a fast and effective search method.

rare was designed in order to provide users with the means of dealing with such data, and it will offer the features and capabilities of a scanner or regular expression extractor, for text data, as well as a real-time summarization tool.

The application supports numerous CLI-based formats, in both graphical and metrical input, such as tables, or histograms. In terms of summarization formats, one will be able to add filters, histograms as well as numerical analysis.

For customizing the application’s behavior, users can rely on file global expansions, optional gzip decompressions, as well as color-coded outputs. Last but not least, one will be able to select for ignoring the expressions-matching lines, to perform aggregations and real-time summarizations simultaneously, without having to wait for all the inputted data to run through the whole scanning process.