TextFileParser description
Read, display and identify and process structures in text files

TextFileParser - as a developer, how many times have you had to read, analyse and process structured text files? How often do you wish that there was a simple way of looking at, and examining the structure without having to open up another application such as Excel to translate it?

Admittedly, if these are fixed format, whilst you can read them easily enough, counting columns is a pain - and did you need to start counting from column 0, or column 1?

There are existing utilities already on your workstation which do parts of the job. You can import (some) text files into Excel. Or you can use the ODBC Text File DSN applet to do much the same thing. And if you want to read text files directly using ODBC the ODBC applet used to be essential. Well, Now....

Life just got a little easier. Text File Parser combines the two and adds some wrinkles of its own. Text File Parser is designed to read, display and help you identify structures within plain vanilla text files

Here are some key features of "TextFileParser":

· Opens TEXT (that is plain ASCII) files.
· Displays the contents in a structured, easy to read fashion,
· Allows you to define and save the file structure for later use
· Export the file to a different format.
· Create / modify / delete Text DSN entries directly (We even bundle the Registered version of the VCL we use to do it. The Time Limited version includes the Freeware version with which you can create the DSN only)
· Test the operation of the Text DSN's so created / modified by using the text files you have examined and saved into Schema.INI
· Print the structure (or save it in ASCII format to a file)
· Choose your own editor