grok – tool like UNIX grep on steroids

grok is a tool like UNIX grep on steroids. Often regular expressions become huge and vague. To resolve this situation macros or grok could be applied. Grok is a peculiar regular expression’s macros name. This term taken from logstash project.

Macros looks like named reference to a regular expression that may be rather complex expression. This regular expression can contain references to other groks and so on. Using groks you can make complex regular expressions from simple ones.

This is free and open source software.

Website: github.com/aegoroff/grok
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Developer: Alexander Egorov
License: MIT License

grok is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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