About this help

TextTransformer is made for many kinds of apllication and users. This help was therefore written so that it should be comprehensible also of programming newcomers.

The examples are constructed like a tutorial and demonstrate the possibilities of the TextTransformer. It is suggested that you experiment with these before developing your own applications.

The introduction presents a short view on the working method of TextTransformer and explains some basic notions.

A wizard helps to create new projects. It is suitable to play with the options of this wizard, to get a first impression of the TextTransformer.

In this help the expression TETRA will be used sometimes as abbreviation of the

TextTransformer program.

TETRA is a program to create, test and execute rules and instructions, which transform a source text into a target text.

The TextTransformer exists in three versions. In contrast to the free version the standard version allows index operations, as for example, the access of sub-expressions of regular expressions and the use of container classes. Furthermore the transfomation manager, the variable-inspector and most wizards are provided only for the standard and professional version. Only the professional version can generate C++ source code.

In blue font the sections of this help are marked, which only concern the professional version.

The red font is used to emphasize warnings or other important remarks.

This page belongs to the TextTransformer Documentation