For those who prefer testimonials about programs, I think this one is
worthy. John was having problems editing/search and replace/sorting
large text files. Many editor authors refer to a 2 meg file as HUGE
when they say their editor can handle huge files. This particular one
is 30 megs and most everything that I've tried so far has failed
miserably. Bk ReplaceEm can hang, but editors have been a problem.
The only editor I've found so far for Windoze:
EditPad Lite
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Consider this an early nomination. Give it a spin and see what you
think. It just became my default editor. There is an option to store
settings in an .ini file and to leave the registry clean. Great
program!
The test file (if you don't have one) is the text at this link, copied
to itself ten times (~30 meg text file, 28+ million characters):
http://members.optushome.com.au/jfweb/90klines.txt
======================================================
Not if the break point is a full stop and a space. If I break there I
should be okay. The only problem is that where a sentence wraps after
a full stop there is no full stop and then space.
Or "newline/>"
I *could* perhaps get around that problem by replacing all full stops
followed by a carriage (soft ?) (hard ?) return by a full stop and
space.
I just pasted in a newline/> and the one I'm trying now works fine.
EditPad Lite
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
A keeper for sure!
The file you listed was just under 3 megs (roughly 3000k). I copied it
to itself ten times and the final file was just short of 30 megs. It
has search and replace and sorting as well. Press the Wordwrap button
and the text automatically extends. Do your search and replace and it
should be ready for sorting.
There are things like ascii art that are going to be thrown in:
(pretty nice actually)
--- - - - - - - - - - - - -
/ \ __ / - - - - - -
/ / \ ( ) / - - - - -
/ / / / / / / \/ \ - - - -
/ / / / / / / : : - - -
/ / / / / ' ' - -
/ / / / .\ \
=====UU==UU=====
' / / /||\ \ \ '
''''
There are typos also.Like where there is no space after the
punctuation. ^
There are paragraphs like the one below that have a skewed format:
"DMF and 1.68 MB formats are the same physical format of 80 tracks and
21
sectors per trackThe 1.68 MB format has 224 entries in the root
directory,
and
a cluster size is 512 bytesDMF format has only 16 entries in the root
directory
(you need create a subdirectory to copy more than 16 files), and the
cluster
size
is 1024 (DMF 1024) or 2048 bytes (DMF 2048)You can check the cluster
size
in the Image Information..."
Not sure what the syntax for that would be though in Bk ReplaceEm
I wonder if there is a difference between soft returns and hard
returns ?
I dunno, Try EditPad Lite though and paste the returns. I just looked
up and AVG was running in the background while I was searching and
replacing! Wow. This is THE best editor I've ever used.
From Blinky's trial:
"[3]While it was removing the greater-thans, I was browsing. That
process took about 7 minutes (1.1 gig AMD Athlon / 448 meg RAM).
The sort had taken about 1.5 minutes."
Mine:
500mhz Intel / 256 megs of RAM / Win98SE:
Very heavy background processing:
Open file: 45 seconds
Removing all greater thans (qoute marks) 1 minute 15 seconds.
I really thought linux might be superior. It seems to me that it is
more important to have a well written app and most of what I've tried
so far are poorly written for large text files. Two thumbs up!
There is no sort function unfortunately. The DOS sort might be a good
place to start. I think that you can do everything except sort with
this program though. The heavy background processing was my utility
working on re-wrapping the file. It ran for about 10 minutes. I was
able to open the new file with the olf file still open, so there is 60
megs opened with no problem.
