A recent project, this was built out of a frustration with the linux CLI tool ‘cut’, which I found to be quite limited in its functionality. The goal was a tool that could split strings by a delimiter, and then choose a selection of the result.
The feature set has expanded rather beyond the initial goal. It now includes full regex parsing, dynamic selections, and a variety of useful features for customising exactly what you want it to do.
Originally built in bash and perl, I have moved it to rust for performance. This included an architectural change to allow for full multithreading. It doesn’t quite match cut’s performance, but it’s close in all cases and scales far better when dealing with large inputs.