TextPipe - excellent text processing software

Makes text processing a snap! Whether it's a 30,000 page website or the Clipboard, TextPipe automates common tasks like search/replace (with pattern matching and Sounds-like), end-of-line conversion, extract email addresses, fixing HTML etc. 100 example filters are included to get you started, and TextPipe's 60 internal filters make life easy. Full HTML online help is provided. Multi-threading handles streams in parallel.

Feature Comparison Chart

This chart lists the feature differences between TextPipe Web, TextPipe Standard, TextPipe for askSam and TextPipe Pro. TextPipe Run Time is equivalent to TextPipe Pro, but without editing capability. TextPipe Run Time for askSam is equivalent to TextPipe for askSam, but without editing capability. TextPipe Pro 10 Day Only is identical to TextPipe Pro.

We provide an upgrade path from TextPipe Web to TextPipe Standard to TextPipe Pro.

 
FEATURE TextPipe Web? TextPipe Standard? TextPipe for askSam? TextPipe Pro & TextPipe Pro 10 Day Only?
Core features        
Search and replace with exact match, pattern match (both Perl and egrep), sounds-like, edit-distance, Brief and MS-Word options, extract option Y Y Y Y
Pattern matching sub-expressions Up to 10 Up to 10 Up to 36 Up to 36
Multi-file, multi-folder Y Y Only askSam import files Y
Handle files of unlimited size (larger than 2GB) Y Y Y Y
Filter creation wizard Y Y Y Y
End of line conversion between DOS/Mac/Unix etc Y Y Y Y
Remove blanks and remove extra white space Y Y Y Y
File-for-file compatible with other versions? Y Y Y Y
Add line numbers Y Y Y Y
Comment filter to document your workflow Y Y Y Y
Restrict changes to line or column ranges Y Y Y Y
Restrict changes to HTML/XML elements, attributes and between tags Y Y Y Y
Detailed audit logs of changes to each file Y Y Y Y
Import search/replace lists, search/replace list filter Y Y Y Y
Developer API        
Command line automation, command line wizard, show command line - - - Y
Scripting interface (COM/ActiveX) - - - Y
Schedule/automate runs (via windows scheduler) - - - Y
Filtering capabilities        
Restrictions - matching or non-matching lines (used for processing database extracts and website logs), each line in turn - Y Y Y
Move, copy, delete and restrict to CSV fields - Y Y Y
Move, copy, delete and restrict to tab-delimited fields - Y Y Y
Move, copy, delete and restrict to columns - Y Y Y
Debug filter to help get your filter correct - Y Y Y
Remove HTML/XML elements, attributes and tags - Y Y Y
Convert CSV to XML, CSV to tab-delimited - Y Y Y
Convert Tab-delimited to XML, Tab-delimited to CSV - Y Y Y
Case changing filters - UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, tOGGLE cASE, rAnDOM CasE - Y Y Y
Randomize lines - Y Y Y
Reverse each line - Y Y Y
Reverse line order - Y Y Y
Add left margin, add right margin, add header, add footer - Y Y Y
Add columns - Y Y Y
Word wrap - Y Y Y
Center text, right justify text - Y Y Y
Remove matching lines/retain matching lines, useful for processing web site logs and other log files - Y Y Y
Remove duplicate lines/count duplicate lines - Y Y Y
Remove backspaces - Y Y Y
Split and merge (join) files - Y Y Y
Sort (all types and options) - Y Y Y
Single-byte Character maps - Y Y Y
Unicode maps, save to/load from Excel, CSV and Tab-delimited formats - Y Y Y
Convert Tabs to Spaces, Spaces to Tabs - Y Y Y
Sub filters - record blocks - - Y Y
Secondary output filters - - Y Y
OEM to ANSI, ANSI to OEM - - Y Y
ASCII to EBCDIC, EBCDIC to ASCII - - Y Y
Unicode to ANSI, ANSI to Unicode - - Y Y
Windows Explorer integration, customize shell extensions - - Y Y
User defined filters written in VBScript/JScript and other scripting languages - - Y Y
Export filter to clipboard/export command line to clipboard - - - Y
Export to JScript, VBScript and web pages - - - Y
Query databases via ADO/ODBC to XML, CSV, fixed width or SQL INSERT script format - - - Y
Extract email addresses - - Y Y
Extract URLs - - Y Y
Remove email headers - - Y Y
Unscramble (ROT13) - - Y Y
Hex/MIME/UU/XX/HTTP email attachment encoding and decoding - - Y Y
Extract filter - - Y Y
Link to external filter file - - Y Y
Text To Word List filter - - Y Y
Pad to width/force to width/truncate to width - - Y Y
Resolve backspaces - - Y Y
Remove start or end of file (Unix head/tail) - - Y Y
Remove line range - - Y Y
Remove ANSI codes - - Y Y
Remove binary characters - - Y Y
Remove all - - Y Y
Run external filter (.exe) - - Y Y
Add text side-by-side - - Y Y
Hex/decimal dump - - Y Y
Character maths - - Y Y
Convert IBM Drawing characters - - Y Y
Repeat file - - Y Y
FEATURE Web? Standard? askSam? Pro & 10 Day Only?