Fix text or binary files of ANY size. Unlike competitor products, TextPipe
does not attempt to read the entire file into memory first, so it can
process files larger than the amount of memory you have.
Process unlimited files and folders (with exclusion lists and
subfolder depth settings), or the Windows clipboard
Restrict changes to lines, columns,
fields, XML and HTML elements and more, eg just lines 10..30, columns 1-3, CSV
fields 4 and 7, Tab-delimited fields 8..10, replacement text etc
Filters can be exported to the clipboard for
documentation purposes and for revision control in external applications.
The export includes the hierarchical filter structure, file lists and
comments.
Filters can also be exported to the command line, to JScript, VBScript or a
web page. This is very handy for automating
processing jobs, and for designing
customized
front ends for TextPipe, making it easier for less technical users.
Uses no temporary files (except for large sorts), so you save massive
amounts of hard disk space
Make multiple changes to multiple files in just ONE pass.
Successive transforms can be applied in a user-defined order, such as multiple
search-replace operations in a row, or an Extract Email Addresses filter
followed by a Sort and Remove Duplicates filter etc
Create and modify XML/CSV/Tab/Insert Script database extracts
from OLE DB/ODBC databases
No limit on line length. Unlike other products, lines are NOT
limited to a fixed length
Test and debug filters without affecting key data
Five part tutorial introduces key concepts
100+ Transforms
Library of more than 200 example filters you can link to
TextPipe can operate on files, the clipboard, or a trial run area with sample
data, which is very handy for testing filters. TextPipe provides
context menus (right-click menus) on every
field to Cut/Copy/Paste/Clear/Select All, escape special characters, insert
common patterns, find and replace, and save to and load from a file.
Filters can be inserted inside each other, or they can be linked at runtime
to other filters, allowing common modules to be reused.
Processing Options
Input options:
Skip binary files (those with less than 80% readable characters). The
user can also be prompted whether to process a binary file or not
Prompt before processing each file
Prompt before processing read-only files
Delete the input files after processing them
Include or exclude subfolders (0-9 levels or All)
Input from clipboard
Input from Trial Run area
Generate random input of a given size
Output options:
Test mode where output goes to a new file rather than overwriting the
original file
Backup mode where original files are saved
Only output modified files
Retain the original file's time and date
Append to existing output files
Change output file's extension
Change output file's folder
Clipboard output (all output is merged to the clipboard)
Merge all output into one file
Logging:
Logging can overwrite or append to an existing file
Logging can be disabled if there is less than a given number of lines
Text Manipulation Filters
TextPipe provides a huge range of filters for
manipulating text. TextPipe's unmatched power comes from it's unique
architecture and its tremendous
flexibility in combining and
arranging these filters to suit each task.
Filters to convert text:
Convert between Unix, PC, Mac and Mainframe end
of line and fixed width record formats. Conversion can detect incoming
line feeds, and insert new characters such as line feeds between
fixed-length records. Invalid End of Line characters can be automatically removed
Convert unprintable IBM drawing characters to + and | and -
Convert tabs to spaces or spaces to tabs
Convert character case to UPPERCASE, lowercase, tOGGLE cASE, Title Case,
Sentence case, rANdoM cASE
Convert character collating sequence from ASCII to EBCDIC or EBCDIC to
ASCII. Expand EBCDIC packed or zoned decimal, compress to EBCDIC packed or
zoned decimal. Useful for
handling mainframe files
Convert ASCII (Windows OEM) to ANSI and ANSI to ASCII. Useful with Windows and non-English
languages
Convert CSV to Tab-delimited, CSV to XML
Convert Tab-delimited to CSV, Tab-delimited to XML
Convert text to a word list
Convert text to a Hex or Decimal dump (very useful for finding control characters)
Convert Word documents to text
Perform mathematical functions on characters (useful for custom ciphers)
Compose, Decompose and Normalize functions (NFC, NFD, NFKD, NFKC)
Filters to add text:
Add line numbers, with control over the start number and increment,
format, numbering of blank lines etc
Add left margin to the start of each line (e.g. to add reply quotes to
email). The text can optionally come from an external file
Add right margin to the end of each line
Add header text to the start of each file
Add footer text to the end of each file
Add a column of text to every line at a specified column position
Add bytes to a file at a given position
Join two files side by side (repeating or non-repeating)
Word wrap text at a specified column width
Pad lines out with spaces to a specified column width (useful for
generating fixed width records)
Truncate lines at a specified column width (useful for generating fixed
width records)
Centre text in a specified column width
Right Justify text in a specified column width
Force lines to a specified column width (useful for generating fixed width
records)
Filters to remove text:
Remove blanks from start of line
Remove blanks from end of line
Remove blank lines
Remove multiple whitespace to a single space (useful for processing web
pages)
Remove HTML, XML and SGML codes
Remove or resolve backspaces
Remove a line range
Remove lines matching or not matching a pattern
Remove lines from a list
Remove lines from a list of patterns
Remove duplicate lines
Remove lines or characters from the start or end of the file (like Unix
head/tail)
Remove columns of text from each line
Remove delimited fields (CSV, Tab, Pipe etc)
Remove binary characters
Remove ANSI escape sequences
Remove all (used for its side effects)
Filters for email:
Extract email address - for mailing lists, etc
Extract URLs and links (for web site spidering)
Remove email headers
ROT13 encoding/decoding
Hex encode/decode
MIME Base 64 encode/decode
MIME quoted printable encode/decode
UUencode/UUdecode
XXencode/XXdecode
HTTP encode/decode - useful with CGI scripts and web pages
Filters for special tasks:
Search and replace - exact match,
multi-line, sounds-like, fuzzy match (detects spelling mistakes), binary
characters, perl and egrep patterns, MS Word patterns, Brief patterns, find
inside HTML tags, find between HTML tags, find between any text. Lists of
search/replace pairs can be loaded from Excel, CSV and Tab-delimited files
Extract matching text
Send text as a SQL command to an OLE DB/ODBC
database and receive the results as CSV,
fixed width, XML or database insert script, with or without header information
(very handy for database extracts)
Sort lines. Options include ascending and descending ANSI and
ASCII sort, sort by length of line, numeric sort, date/time sorts. The start column and
length can now be specified. Handles files of unlimited size
Debug filter to show text at each point in the processing
Split files at a particular size, or after a particular character has
appeared a defined number of times, or after a defined number of lines.
Join (merge) files together. e.g. Merge files to the clipboard.
Secondary output filters (a Unix T-filter) to output the text at different
stages
Count duplicates or remove duplicates
Retain lines matching or not matching a pattern
Retain lines from a list
Retain lines from a list of patterns
Move columns or delimited fields (CSV, Tab, Pipe etc)
Copy columns or delimited fields (CSV, Tab, Pipe etc)
Repeat a file (duplicating its text)
Randomize line order - randomize lines in file
Reverse each line
Reverse line order
XSLT filter.
Filters to map single characters or Unicode characters to a new string:
User-defined mapping. The user can specify a string
to be output for each of the 256 possible character codes. Strings can
contain embedded control characters. Unicode Maps are also supported.
UTF-16 maps
UTF-32 maps.
Filters to restrict changes to subsets of text:
Restrict matching lines
Restrict non-matching lines
Restrict each line in turn (used for its side effects)
Restrict CSV fields
Restrict Tab fields
Restrict line range
Restrict column range
Restrict blocks
TextPipe also include over a collection of over 100 demonstration filters and
maps for common tasks.
TextPipe is simple to install, and no configuration is required before using
it.
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