diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.classpath b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.classpath
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index 0000000..1f3c1ff
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+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.classpath
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/java"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.6"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.project b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.project
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+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.project
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>texthelper</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
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index 0000000..8599738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.codegen.targetPlatform=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.forbiddenReference=warning
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.source=1.6
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
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index 0000000..4562b1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+activeProfiles=
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+fullBuildGoals=process-test-resources
+includeModules=false
+resolveWorkspaceProjects=true
+resourceFilterGoals=process-resources resources\:testResources
+skipCompilerPlugin=true
+version=1
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/pom.xml b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/pom.xml
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index 0000000..0030339
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text</groupId>
+  <artifactId>texthelper</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples</groupId>
+    <artifactId>text-example</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <dependencies>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-dataflow-std</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-api</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.0.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <source>1.6</source>
+          <target>1.6</target>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/WordTupleParserFactory.java b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/WordTupleParserFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d7cc1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/WordTupleParserFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text;
+
+import java.io.DataOutput;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.comm.IFrameWriter;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksStageletContext;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.ArrayTupleBuilder;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAppender;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.util.FrameUtils;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.parsers.IValueParser;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.parsers.UTF8StringParserFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.ITupleParser;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.ITupleParserFactory;
+
+public class WordTupleParserFactory implements ITupleParserFactory {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    @Override
+    public ITupleParser createTupleParser(final IHyracksStageletContext ctx) {
+        return new ITupleParser() {
+            @Override
+            public void parse(InputStream in, IFrameWriter writer) throws HyracksDataException {
+                try {
+                    ByteBuffer frame = ctx.allocateFrame();
+                    FrameTupleAppender appender = new FrameTupleAppender(ctx.getFrameSize());
+                    appender.reset(frame, true);
+                    ArrayTupleBuilder tb = new ArrayTupleBuilder(1);
+                    DataOutput dos = tb.getDataOutput();
+
+                    IValueParser utf8StringParser = UTF8StringParserFactory.INSTANCE.createValueParser();
+                    WordCursor cursor = new WordCursor(new InputStreamReader(in));
+                    while (cursor.nextWord()) {
+                        tb.reset();
+                        utf8StringParser.parse(cursor.buffer, cursor.fStart, cursor.fEnd - cursor.fStart, dos);
+                        tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+                        if (!appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize())) {
+                            FrameUtils.flushFrame(frame, writer);
+                            appender.reset(frame, true);
+                            if (!appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize())) {
+                                throw new IllegalStateException();
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    if (appender.getTupleCount() > 0) {
+                        FrameUtils.flushFrame(frame, writer);
+                    }
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    throw new HyracksDataException(e);
+                }
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    private static class WordCursor {
+        private static final int INITIAL_BUFFER_SIZE = 4096;
+        private static final int INCREMENT = 4096;
+
+        private char[] buffer;
+
+        private int start;
+        private int end;
+        private boolean eof;
+
+        private int fStart;
+        private int fEnd;
+        private Reader in;
+
+        public WordCursor(Reader in) {
+            this.in = in;
+            buffer = new char[INITIAL_BUFFER_SIZE];
+            start = 0;
+            end = 0;
+            eof = false;
+        }
+
+        public boolean nextWord() throws IOException {
+            if (eof) {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            boolean wordStarted = false;
+            int p = start;
+            while (true) {
+                if (p >= end) {
+                    int s = start;
+                    eof = !readMore();
+                    if (eof) {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                    p -= (s - start);
+                }
+                char ch = buffer[p];
+                if (isNonWordChar(ch)) {
+                    fStart = start;
+                    fEnd = p;
+                    start = p + 1;
+                    if (wordStarted) {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    wordStarted = true;
+                }
+                ++p;
+            }
+        }
+
+        private boolean isNonWordChar(char ch) {
+            switch (ch) {
+                case '.':
+                case ',':
+                case '!':
+                case '@':
+                case '#':
+                case '$':
+                case '%':
+                case '^':
+                case '&':
+                case '*':
+                case '(':
+                case ')':
+                case '+':
+                case '=':
+                case ':':
+                case ';':
+                case '"':
+                case '\'':
+                case '{':
+                case '}':
+                case '[':
+                case ']':
+                case '|':
+                case '\\':
+                case '/':
+                case '<':
+                case '>':
+                case '?':
+                case '~':
+                case '`':
+                    return true;
+            }
+            return Character.isWhitespace(ch);
+        }
+
+        private boolean readMore() throws IOException {
+            if (start > 0) {
+                System.arraycopy(buffer, start, buffer, 0, end - start);
+            }
+            end -= start;
+            start = 0;
+
+            if (end == buffer.length) {
+                buffer = Arrays.copyOf(buffer, buffer.length + INCREMENT);
+            }
+
+            int n = in.read(buffer, end, buffer.length - end);
+            if (n < 0) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            end += n;
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+}
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