Fixed-length file viewer?
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Hi all, Does anyone know of a text editor that I could use to look through a fixed-length file? The file I'm working with has about 400 characters with a few dozen columns. I was hoping for something like a Notepad++ plug-in that would draw column lines where I specify. I can dump the thing into Excel, but Excel gets too fancy and does things like right-justify something that shouldn't be. I've searched and come up with nothing but certainly can't be the first person to wrestle with a really wide file... Thanks!!
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Hi all, Does anyone know of a text editor that I could use to look through a fixed-length file? The file I'm working with has about 400 characters with a few dozen columns. I was hoping for something like a Notepad++ plug-in that would draw column lines where I specify. I can dump the thing into Excel, but Excel gets too fancy and does things like right-justify something that shouldn't be. I've searched and come up with nothing but certainly can't be the first person to wrestle with a really wide file... Thanks!!
No, but it should be easy enough to create one.
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Hi all, Does anyone know of a text editor that I could use to look through a fixed-length file? The file I'm working with has about 400 characters with a few dozen columns. I was hoping for something like a Notepad++ plug-in that would draw column lines where I specify. I can dump the thing into Excel, but Excel gets too fancy and does things like right-justify something that shouldn't be. I've searched and come up with nothing but certainly can't be the first person to wrestle with a really wide file... Thanks!!
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Meg W wrote:
Excel gets too fancy and does things like right-justify something that shouldn't be.
A single Ctrl-A, left align can fix this. :rolleyes:
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True, if everything in the original file were justified the same way, but it's not. I'm going to lose a lot if I can't just see each character where it's supposed to be - even seeing the spaces in between is valuable, but with Excel that's just lost. Thanks anyway!
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Hi all, Does anyone know of a text editor that I could use to look through a fixed-length file? The file I'm working with has about 400 characters with a few dozen columns. I was hoping for something like a Notepad++ plug-in that would draw column lines where I specify. I can dump the thing into Excel, but Excel gets too fancy and does things like right-justify something that shouldn't be. I've searched and come up with nothing but certainly can't be the first person to wrestle with a really wide file... Thanks!!
If you have VS, you can set VS to draw guidelines in the text editor[^].
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If you have VS, you can set VS to draw guidelines in the text editor[^].
--Mike-- Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam
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Hi all, Does anyone know of a text editor that I could use to look through a fixed-length file? The file I'm working with has about 400 characters with a few dozen columns. I was hoping for something like a Notepad++ plug-in that would draw column lines where I specify. I can dump the thing into Excel, but Excel gets too fancy and does things like right-justify something that shouldn't be. I've searched and come up with nothing but certainly can't be the first person to wrestle with a really wide file... Thanks!!
Hi, You can use EditPlus for making columns in text files. In Edit plus->Document->Column Maker option allows you to set columns.