Gema Alternatives

Apps similar to Gema include Perl, which is free and open source. Other options are AWK, GNU sed, PP - A generic Preprocessor and GCC C Preprocessor (cpp). You can choose from more than 10 Programming Languages like Gema for Linux, Windows and Mac.

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  1. Perl icon
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    Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development.

    84 Perl alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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  2.  6 likes

    If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
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    sed (stream editor) is a Unix utility that parses text and implements a programming language which can apply transformations to such text. It reads input line by line (sequentially), applying the operation which has been specified via the command line (or a sed script), and then...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
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  4. P is a text preprocessor designed for Pandoc (and more generally Markdown and reStructuredText). PP implements:

    • macros
    • literate programming
    • GraphViz, PlantUML and ditaa diagrams
    • Bash, Cmd, PowerShell, Python and Haskell scripts

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    • Mac
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  5. The C preprocessor implements the macro language used to transform C, C++, and Objective-C programs before they are compiled. It can also be useful on its own.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  6.  1 like

    filepp is a generic file preprocessor. It is designed to allow the functionality provided by the C preprocessor to be used with any file type. filepp supports the following keywords, all of which have their usual C preprocessor meanings and usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. TXR icon
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    TXR is a pragmatic, convenient data munging language oriented toward processing of text from files or streams, using multiple programming paradigms. It is influenced by concepts from text processing languages such as awk or perl, pattern matching concepts from logic/AI...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Programming language for symbolic computation with extraordinary combination of pattern matching features: tree patterns, associative patterns and expressions embedded in patterns.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. GNU M4 icon
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    GNU M4 is an implementation of the m4 macro preprocessor. Developed by the GNU Project, GNU M4 is designed to avoid many kinds of limits found in traditional m4 implementations, such as maximum line lengths, maximum size of a macro and number of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax, suitable for a wide range of preprocessing tasks. Its independence from any one programming language makes it much more versatile than the C preprocessor (cpp), while its syntax is lighter and more flexible than...

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  11. A variation on the C preprocessor that (1) works on multiple languages and (2) encodes preprocessor statements as comments in that language so syntax correctness is not broken.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. The build preprocessor is similar to the C preprocessor, meant for processing files which have no built-in preprocessor such as XUL and JavaScript documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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