TextPipe Pro 8.9.9

TextPipe Pro 8.9.9 offers you a lightweight, convenient as well as smart text transformation, conversion, cleansing and extraction workbench. One tool - One point of maintenance. With TextPipe you specify all your text processing functions in one place, rather than remembering and managing multiple manual jobs across various text editors, command line tools, custom scripts and Word and Excel macros.

TextPipe provides a single point of maintenance for all your text processing tasks. You learn one tool, rather than learning 4 or more - and their associated languages, command line options, debugging schemes, idiosyncrasies and operating system differences and dependencies. TextPipe is far less costly to learn, use, develop with and maintain than cobbling together multiple generic tools and custom scripts to achieve one end. It's a Swiss army knife combining the best of perl, awk, grep, sed, and many other less common text processing tools. You'll be productive with TextPipe in minutes, not days. 

• TextPipe is exceptionally fast
• TextPipe handles files of unlimited size, even files larger than 2 Gigabytes! Other applications attempt to load the entire file into memory (grinding your system to a halt).
• TextPipe's unique restrictions control precisely where changes are made. Restrict to a range of lines or columns, to specific Tab or CSV fields, between HTML/XML tags, and inside custom ranges. Restrictions can be combined, for example, to columns 1-10 of lines matching a pattern. Restrictions are essential for extensive but controlled search and replace
• TextPipe performs multiple operations simultaneously. Other applications offer only 1, up to 5, or require a slow multi-pass approach
• If TextPipe's 100+ filters don't suit your needs, you can use industry standard VBScript/JScript to write your own. Other applications either don't offer this facility, or force you to learn a proprietary language
• TextPipe is unique in offering the EasyPattern pattern matching language for those not familiar with text pattern matching (regular expressions). EasyPatterns are English-like and very easy to learn
• TextPipe can be scheduled for non-interactive use, and can be controlled by an external program. Other applications provide only a mouse interface.

1. 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
2. Text Manipulation Filters:
   • 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)
   • Unicode functions:
   • • Conversions to and from 144 different Unicode formats, as well as ANSI/ASCII and a multitude of other formats
     • Convert Unicode to ANSI and ANSI to Unicode
     • Convert Unicode to ASCII and ASCII to Unicode
     • Swap UTF-16 word order, swap UTF-32 word order
     • Remove Byte Order Mark (BOM)
     • Make Big Endian, make Little Endian
     • 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
     • Run an external program over the text
     • Run scripts written in VBScript, JScript or any scripting language
     • Comment filters to document the filter
     • 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

Enhancements:

• Capture Text, Break on Value Change window now shows length of strings and current cursor position.
• Updated internal PCRE (Pattern Matching ) engine to v8.13 and support for Unicode 6.0.0.
• Updated Unicode internal libraries to support Unicode 4.1 for Normalization etc.
• COM callees are now notified of Stack violations (e.g. during pattern execution) or other critical errors via the existing 'FilterWindow.errorText' variable.
• Only modified files are added back into Zip files such as .zip, .docx, .xlsx and .pptx.

• Windows 98, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista & Windows 7