This software is a quick and efficient tool for manipulating and extracting data from various sources including websites, databases, and electronic texts. It offers features like pattern matching, conversion of different end of line characters, ASCII-EBCDIC, and more. Additionally, it can add or remove lines/columns, sort and split data, and perform JScript/VBScript functions.
One of the standout features of TextPipe Engine is its ability to update web site text using search and replace, which supports perl pattern matching, sounds-like matching, and edit-distance matching. Other functions include the ability to convert files from foreign computer systems between mainframe fixed-length formats and DOS, Macintosh, and Unix line-feed formats.
With TextPipe Engine, you can also 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.
TextPipe Engine is also incredibly flexible, allowing you to 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.). Plus, the software can be fully automated via a web page, the command-line, or scripted via a COM interface. It even handles files larger than 2 GB.
For even more flexibility, user-defined filters can be written in VBScript or JScript. Plus, audit logs keep track of the filter lists run, files modified, and changes made. More than 200 example filter files are also included along with a comprehensive online manual.
Finally, TextPipe Engine has received numerous awards and accolades, including the SIA 2003 "Best Application" award and praise from Australian Developer Mag as an "industrial grade text conversion utility" and "the most powerful text alteration utility available."
Version 10.7:
* Mainframe copybook now supplies better error message when COMP- types appear
without a PIC clause or length.
* Windows Explorer shell extensions can now be edited.
* Enhanced perl regex filter to allow Unicode characters to delimit Whole
Words.
Version 10.5:
• Added the much-requested JScript/VBScript Scripting Filter to TextPipe x64!
• Updated Unicode compose/decompose functions for NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD
• Updated PDF libraries
• Updated code page converter library (2013->2017)
• Updated TextPipe Engine DLL royalty-free embeddable component
Version 10.0.6:
* Fixed greediness setting not being respected for perl patterns.
* The Filename is now passed to subfilters of a Restrict to Matching Lines
filter.
* Fixed bug with handling of negative offsets (relative to end) for field, line
and column restrictions.
Version 9.9.4: Faster search/replace, UI find/replace improvements, better installer
Version 9.9.2:
* Re-arranged UI for better user experience.
* Loading a file into the Trial Input area now does not double backslashes or
other special chars.
* Temp files used in processing Zip files, or in Convert Word/Excel/PDF to Text
are now thread-safe to avoid conflicts.
Version 9.9:
* New Tools Menu item to search your filters for a piece of text. Perfect for
finding filters in a large filter list.
* New Replace options - replace (or skip) rest of folder. Great for websites
and other hierarchical structures.
Version 9.8.1:
New EasyPattern [MacAddress] for firewall log processing.
Massively improved speed of filters that match against a list of patterns e.g extracting lines that match a list of 20,000 words.
Better bounds on Fibonacci buffer growth.
Version 9.7.3:
BeyondCompare difference tool integration
Removed warning about active COM objects.
Sort function now much faster.
Removed warning about active COM objects.
Version 8.8.2: List filename now gets loaded properly.
Version 8.7: New macro @outputFilename, Filter lists are now freed on completion, memory leaks fixed and more