Bug#1016389: RFP: choose -- human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk

[Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : choose
  Version         : 1.3.4
  Upstream Author : Ryan Geary
* URL             : https://github.com/theryangeary/choose
* License         : GPL-3.0
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk

This is choose, a human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes)
awk.
.
Features:
- terse field selection syntax similar to Python's list slices
- negative indexing from end of line
- optional start/end index
- zero-indexed
- reverse ranges
- slightly faster than cut for sufficiently long inputs, much faster than awk
- regular expression field separators using Rust's regex syntax