Selection of output delimiters

[koraa]

Morning,

I think jq is pretty damn useful as a general text processor (i.e. functional replacement for grep and sed).

Simple cases such as grepping for a line are easy echo -e "foo\nbar\nbaz" | jq -Rr 'select(test("a"))'.
Other cases like using a different delimiter are more because I need to manually split the input: echo -en "foo\0bar\0baz\0" | jq -Rsrj 'split("\u0000") | map(select(test("a")) | . + "\u0000") | .[]'

It would be nice if jq provided parameters to explicitly select input and output parameters so I can write: echo -en "foo\0bar\0baz\0" | jq -Rs -d'\0' -D'\0' 'map(select(test("a"))'

[koraa]

Argh! Just found #1271 and #965