If like me, you have to manipulate huge text files containing thousands of lines of data and you hate trawling through them manually, slowly, one-by-one, line-by-line then boy do I have a few tricks to teach you. These tricks of mass manipulation of text files will turn your week long, heart-wrenching job into a 5 minute heart-lifting pleasure bordering on the orgasmic [just trying to liven things-up]. I used to export and paste my text files into an Open Office spreadsheet then sort them before cutting and pasting. Doing so used to cut in half the time taken to edit my text files. I even … [Read more...]