Text file Filter and Formatter

The professional version consists of three different panels that perform different kinds of operations. Two of the panels can filter or format the text and update the result, while the third panel can
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Publisher Name:
  • Kieran Greer
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://distributedcomputingsystems.co.uk/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 543 KB

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Text file Filter and Formatter Description

Text file Filter and Formatter The professional version consists of three different panels that perform different kinds of operations. Two of the panels can filter or format the text and update the result, while the third panel can perform a limited amount of analysis over the text. The panels in the GUI are as follows: 1. The General panel allows for general filtering operations over the whole text file. This is also the panel provided in the demo version. 2. The Manual panel allows the user to manually specify certain cells or areas to filter or remove. 3. The Analysis panel can perform some statistical analysis over the raw or filtered text. General Panel This panel can perform filtering and formatting processes over the whole text document and is shown below. You specify a number of filtering/formatting options that are to be performed in sequence and then run them to change the text. This panel consists of a left-hand side with the filtering/formatting options and a right-hand side that shows the document after it has been changed. Manual Panel The General panel allows you to choose a sequence of operations that are automatically applied to the whole document. The Manual filtering panel provides additional functionality through a grid or tabular format that allows you to select specific columns and rows to delete or format. This means that you can manually process a certain area of data, without the operation being applied to the whole document. The grid table also provides a popup menu with additional formatting options. So with the grid format you can: * Select certain (whole or partial) columns or rows of data to remove, while keeping the rest of the text. * Insert new columns of text at specific positions, or add to existing text. * Manually reformat only specific areas of the text to a new width, which is more flexible than the whole document option of the General panel. * Save finally formatted text with a user-specified separator between the cell words, such as for a CSV file. So with the manual panel you can work at the individual word or cell level, instead of whole lines or the whole document. This also allows for certain vertical reformatting possibilities, which would not be possible with the General panel options. The tabular format might also be useful for extracting information from something like a log file, where the same statement is continually output, but with different values. A graphic of the Manual panel is shown below. Analysis Panel The professional version also comes with a panel that can provide a limited amount of analysis of what the newly formatted text represents. The analysis essentially performs some statistical operations on the text words, comparing them to determine the most popular groupings. This analysis includes: * The standard line, word and character counts of a Word document, for example. * Other analysis possibilities, where the default is to tell you what the most popular words or word sequences are. The two optional choices count the following: * The most popular word count reads every word and counts the number of times that it occurs. The top specified number of words is then output. * The most popular sequences option looks for popular word sequences in the text and again outputs the most popular ones. For example, the number of times two or three words appear together. The graphic below is an example of the analysis panel, with an analysis of the menu text of the General panel displayed.


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