commit c2d394dbee97af98114b5f5552cd411442b06c51
Author: Alexander Zinn <alexzinnde@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 6 21:33:15 2025 -0400

    initial commit

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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diff --git a/cmd/root.go b/cmd/root.go
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+/*
+Copyright © 2025 NAME HERE <EMAIL ADDRESS>
+
+*/
+package cmd
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+)
+
+
+
+// rootCmd represents the base command when called without any subcommands
+var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
+	Use:   "mytextfmt",
+	Short: "A brief description of your application",
+	Long: `A longer description that spans multiple lines and likely contains
+examples and usage of using your application. For example:
+
+Cobra is a CLI library for Go that empowers applications.
+This application is a tool to generate the needed files
+to quickly create a Cobra application.`,
+	// Uncomment the following line if your bare application
+	// has an action associated with it:
+	// Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) { },
+}
+
+// Execute adds all child commands to the root command and sets flags appropriately.
+// This is called by main.main(). It only needs to happen once to the rootCmd.
+func Execute() {
+	err := rootCmd.Execute()
+	if err != nil {
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+}
+
+func init() {
+	// Here you will define your flags and configuration settings.
+	// Cobra supports persistent flags, which, if defined here,
+	// will be global for your application.
+
+	// rootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVar(&cfgFile, "config", "", "config file (default is $HOME/.mytextfmt.yaml)")
+
+	// Cobra also supports local flags, which will only run
+	// when this action is called directly.
+	rootCmd.Flags().BoolP("toggle", "t", false, "Help message for toggle")
+}
+
+
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
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+module mytextfmt
+
+go 1.25.1
+
+require (
+	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.1 // indirect
+	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10 // indirect
+)
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
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+github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.6/go.mod h1:oOW0eioCTA6cOiMLiUPZOpcVxMig6NIQQ7OS05n1F4g=
+github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0 h1:wN+x4NVGpMsO7ErUn/mUI3vEoE6Jt13X2s0bqwp9tc8=
+github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0/go.mod h1:vpF70FUmC8bwa3OWnCshd2FqLfsEA9PFc4w1p2J65bw=
+github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
+github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.1 h1:lJeBwCfmrnXthfAupyUTzJ/J4Nc1RsHC/mSRU2dll/s=
+github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.1/go.mod h1:7SmJGaTHFVBY0jW4NXGluQoLvhqFQM+6XSKD+P4XaB0=
+github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.9/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
+github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10 h1:4EBh2KAYBwaONj6b2Ye1GiHfwjqyROoF4RwYO+vPwFk=
+github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
+gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
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+/*
+Copyright © 2025 NAME HERE <EMAIL ADDRESS>
+*/
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+)
+
+var (
+	uppercase bool
+	lowercase bool
+	titlecase bool
+	wordcount bool
+	charcount bool
+)
+
+var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
+	Use:   "mytextfmt [text]",
+	Short: "A simple text formatter",
+	Long: `mytextfmt is a CLI tool for formatting and analyzing text.
+
+You can provide text as arguments or pipe it in via stdin.
+Multiple formatting options can be applied simultaneously`,
+	Args: cobra.ArbitraryArgs,
+	Run:  runTextFormatter,
+}
+
+func init() {
+	rootCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&uppercase, "upper", "u", false, "Convert text to uppercase")
+	rootCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&lowercase, "lower", "l", false, "Convert text to lowercase")
+	rootCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&titlecase, "title", "t", false, "Convert text to titlecase")
+	rootCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&wordcount, "words", false, "Count words in text")
+	rootCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&charcount, "chars", false, "Count characters in text")
+}
+
+func runTextFormatter(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
+	var text string
+
+	// Get input text from args or stdin
+	if len(args) > 0 {
+		text = strings.Join(args, " ")
+	} else {
+		scanner := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin)
+		var lines []string
+
+		for scanner.Scan() {
+			lines = append(lines, scanner.Text())
+		}
+
+		text = strings.Join(lines, "\n")
+	}
+
+	if text == "" {
+		fmt.Println("No input text was provided")
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	result := text
+
+	if uppercase {
+		result = strings.ToUpper(result)
+	}
+
+	if lowercase {
+		result = strings.ToLower(result)
+	}
+
+	if titlecase {
+		result = strings.Title(result)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println(result)
+
+	if wordcount {
+		words := len(strings.Fields(text))
+
+		fmt.Printf("Word count [%d]\n", words)
+	}
+
+	if charcount {
+		chars := len(text)
+
+		fmt.Printf("Character count [%d]\n", chars)
+	}
+}
+
+func main() {
+	if err := rootCmd.Execute(); err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+}
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