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Editing CSV files...

 [1/6] from: john:thousand-hills at: 6-Sep-2001 14:03


I have been using Ultraedit for years. It is easy, flexible, I can vied special characters, FTP open and save directly, spell checker, tag libraries... John At 09:35 AM 9/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:

 [2/6] from: dness:home at: 6-Sep-2001 15:08


Gregg Irwin wrote:
> Hi David, > << ... I have found a few scripts for manipulating CSV files, but so far
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> the right place? >> > What about Carl's text-edit script? Would that get you started?
Not unless I'm missing `the point' in some big way. Editing CSV files is surely nothing like editing text files, even if CSVs are just `made out of text'. The essential idea of CSVs is, of course, that the commas separate the values of `variables', and to work on them you want to present them in such a way in an extended representation that would be not unlike a `spreadsheet' although---in most cases---one deals primarily with text, not numeric values. Of course, given REBOL, there may be some mystical switch or refinement of text-edit that I don't know about or understand...

 [3/6] from: dness::home::com at: 6-Sep-2001 15:50


John Harbaugh wrote:
> I have been using Ultraedit for years. It is easy, flexible, I can vied > special characters, FTP open and save directly, spell checker, tag libraries... > > John >
I have countless non-Rebol tools to screw around with ASCII files. I didn't like Ultraedit much and abandoned it reasonably quickly, but like, and have used, lots of others. However, in this case I am interested in REBOL display (with editing) so related tools aren't relevant. Thanks anyway.

 [4/6] from: greggirwin:starband at: 6-Sep-2001 16:50


Hi David, << Not unless I'm missing `the point' in some big way. Editing CSV files is surely nothing like editing text files, even if CSVs are just `made out of text'. The essential idea of CSVs is, of course, that the commas separate the values of `variables', and to work on them you want to present them in such a way in an extended representation that would be not unlike a `spreadsheet' although---in most cases---one deals primarily with text, not numeric values. >> Sorry, I didn't catch that you wanted to edit them by column/field, and not just as plain files. I'm too new to rebol to just whip up an example, though some steps (like parsing the data) will be simple, coming up with a dynamic layout for editing purposes is a bit beyond my current skill level.<g> --Gregg

 [5/6] from: dness:home at: 6-Sep-2001 9:35


... I have found a few scripts for manipulating CSV files, but so far haven't spotted anything that lets me `view' and `edit' them. Am I just not looking in the right place?

 [6/6] from: greggirwin:starband at: 6-Sep-2001 11:59


Hi David, << ... I have found a few scripts for manipulating CSV files, but so far haven't spotted anything that lets me `view' and `edit' them. Am I just not looking in the right place? >> What about Carl's text-edit script? Would that get you started? --Gregg

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