Description:
This program formats lines of input, read from stdin,
into hash textual format for perl, json or python.
It supports options to insert line breaks and
to assign a name to the generated output hash.
usage: hashfmt [OPTIONS] LANGUAGE
OPTIONS:
--help | -h : show this text
--line-break N | -l N : print newline after every N elements
--variable XX | -v XX : assign the resulting hash to a variable named XX
LANGUAGE is one of: json, perl, python
A simple tool, especially useful for code generation or testing.
Example:
hashfmt -l 4 --variable months python <<EOS
Jan 31
Feb 28
Mar 31
Apr 30
May 31
Jun 30
Jul 31
Aug 31
Sep 30
Oct 31
Nov 30
Dec 31
EOS
produces:
months = {"Jan" : "31", "Feb" : "28", "Mar" : "31", "Apr" : "30",
"May" : "31", "Jun" : "30", "Jul" : "31", "Aug" : "31",
"Sep" : "30", "Oct" : "31", "Nov" : "30", "Dec" : "31"}
Author:
Gyepi Sam