TextPipe Engine 8.3.5

TextPipe Engine 8.3.5 is a multi-award winning, industrial strength text transformation, conversion, cleansing and extraction workbench.

Slam-dunk the most challenging edit tasks with TextPipe Engine - a powerful text-processing engine that combines 100+ conversion, translation and filtering operations on multiple text or binary files. Update web site text using search and replace, which supports perl pattern matching, sounds-like matching and edit-distance matching, and search/replace lists loaded from Excel/CSV/Tab files. Convert files from foreign computer systems between mainframe fixed-length formats and DOS, Macintosh and Unix line-feed formats. Filters can split or join files, add or remove lines or columns, remove blanks from the start or end of each line, remove blank lines, remove HTML tags, remove duplicate lines, add line numbers, sort, center or right justify text, word wrap, convert between ASCII and EBCDIC, OEM and ANSI, Unicode and ANSI, remap ANSI or Unicode characters, extract email addresses, expand or contract tabs, remove backspaces, remove binary characters, pad or truncate or force lines to a predetermined width, generate word lists and much more. Restrict changes to line or column ranges, CSV- or tab-delimited fields, lines that match or do not match a pattern, and search replacements (allowing replacement text to be capitalized etc).

TextPipe can be fully automated via a web page, the command-line or scripted via a COM interface. Handles files larger than 2 GB. XML, CSV, tab-delimited or fixed width database extracts can be generated using the database connection filter. User-defined filters can be written in VBScript or JScript. Audit logs keep track of the filter lists run, files modified and changes made. More than 200 example filter files are included along with a comprehensive online manual. Winner SIA 2003 "Best Application" award

Major Functions:

1. HTML, XML and other structured documents from the WWW
2. Fixed length or delimited files (CSV, Tab, Pipe, etc)
3. Unix, Mainframe and PC/Windows end-of-line formats
4. Inside Zip files, and the new Microsoft Office 2007 formats DOCX, XLSX, PPTX
5. ASCII, ANSI, Unicode and EBCDIC files
6. Security log files from firewalls, web servers etc
7. EDIFACT, HL7, SWIFT and other structured formats
8. Spooled print files
9. Structured and unstructured reports of any size or dimension

Major Benefits:

• 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.

Major Features:

1. 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.
2. Process unlimited files and folders (with exclusion lists and subfolder depth settings), or the Windows clipboard
3. Unmatched search and replace power. Read more
4. EasyPattern text matching and perl patterns
5. Can be scheduled for automated lights-out processing, with audit logs tracking every step
6. Integrates with Windows Explorer and various third-party tools
7. Developer API - can be scripted via a COM interface by other programs
8. 145 Unicode, ANSI, ASCII and single byte and multi-byte conversion functions, and 151 code page conversions
9. Roll your own custom filters using industry standard JScript and VBScript
10. 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
11. Wizard to assemble complex filters
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Uses no temporary files (except for large sorts), so you save massive amounts of hard disk space
15. 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
16. Create and modify XML/CSV/Tab/Insert Script database extracts from OLE DB/ODBC databases
17. No limit on line length. Unlike other products, lines are NOT limited to a fixed length
18. Test and debug filters without affecting key data
19. Five part tutorial introduces key concepts
20. 100+ Transforms
21. Library of more than 200 example filters you can link to
22. Ultra-High Speed

Enhancements:

• Fixed memory leak,
• VBScript/JScript code generation,
• Blank field handling

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