LineMerge 1
Download LineMerge Version 1 Demo
This application is designed for merging two different text files, or for merging a single text file into a new file. It can be handy for operations such as "One from column A and one from column B", converting lists to HTML or XML, and other line-based text manipulation tasks. It's the sort of utility that you don't know you need until you need it, but when you do, it saves you a LOT of time.
Most merge tools
are designed for comparing two versions of the same file. It's hard to
find a tool that will combine two files into a new file. LineMerge is
the answer - a specific tool for a specific task.
The demo version is fully functional, with one exception: It will not
create a destination file greater than 100 lines. The full version of
LineMerge can be purchased for $10 USD and has no limit to the size of
files that can be processed.
Possible Uses of LineMerge
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You have a file containing a list of 500 items that you want to get into a web form. It will take a long time to add the HTML tags by hand. What would have been a very dull and time-consuming task is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:
This technique can also be used to convert items to XML or add other HTML formatting tags. |
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You have two related lists that you want to merge but you'll have to do it by hand because you need two lines from file A to correspond to each line of file B. What would have been a long cut-and-paste session is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:
This is the same example presented by the introductory screenshot. |
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You want to strip all of the newlines from a file. Easily done using LineMerge with these settings:
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You have a file full of thousands of records that need to have some header data added to each of them, and each record is spaced 6 lines apart. What would have been a very long and gruelling task is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:
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You have a file containing a bunch of records and only need the third line of each 6-line record. For instance, you might want to harvest the first names from a list of addresses. What would have taken a ton of time by hand is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:
It would be just as easy to include everything except the sixth line of each record by using an include of 5 and a skip value of 1. |
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You have a file containing 1000 sentences without punctuation and you want to add a period to the end of each one. Easily done with these settings:
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