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General-purpose macro processor is a grammar language created in 1995.

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A general-purpose macro processor or general purpose preprocessor is a macro processor that is not tied to or integrated with a particular language or piece of software. A macro processor is a program that copies a stream of text from one place to another, making a systematic set of replacements as it does so. Macro processors are often embedded in other programs, such as assemblers and compilers. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from the web:
gema -match -p 'Title\:*\n=$0@end' foo

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