From: william w. <dx...@gm...> - 2009-08-04 20:58:40
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Use emeditor. Awesome! Bill http://twitterpowerline.com On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Roderick Thomas <tho...@ms...> wrote: > For those of you who I haven't met . . . > > I'm a novice programmer. And I'm also an data analyst working in a > restrictive environment for the State of Michigan. This being the > case, it's highly unusual for our Department of Information & Technology > to allow us to install software that has not been pre-approved by a host > of committees. However, my recent duties require me to calculate the > total number of records (rows) in text files in order to meet certain > format requirements. For this reason, I am in need of a text editor > more advanced than Notepad or Wordpad--one that at least displays row > counts. Since a text editor of that sort has not been pre-approved, I > have been granted permission to test open source editors to recommend as > state-approved software. Of course, I would like to take full advantage > of this opportunity. For my personal interests I would like to test > editors that are also useful for PHP and MySql. Java, Drupal, and other > platforms would be a plus. But most importantly, for state business I > would need features like sorting, searching, data manipulation, and > other stuff based on certain unique formats. > > > For example, I may want to identify or count strings that look like these: > > HD*as*01*286*441~ > REF*zz*20090731***~ > INS*1*20090701-20090731*y*x*04~ > > Thanks. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > chiPHPug-discuss mailing list > chi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chiphpug-discuss > |