Hi arthur,

On Wed, 17 May 2006 14:07:13 -0400 Arthur Knapp wrote:

> Hi. Didn't there used to be a "columnize" command in BBEdit. I've been
> frantically searching for it in version 7, and can't locate it, or
> anything that would do the same functionality, ie: take a huge list of
> lines and turn them into tab seperated columns.
> 
> Does version 8 do this? Has someone written an efficient script for
> this?

Bryan Harris once wrote a nifty perl filter to accomplish this task.
Here's his original post:

> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:32:43 -0700
> Subject: [ANN] Entable
> From: Bryan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> In response to my own request a while back for a tool that will line up
> columns of data in BBEdit, I created my own:  entable.
> 
> It's lunchware/freeware, and is available at:
> 
>   <http://www.harrisfam.net/entable>
> 
> - Bryan

The Url is still valid and the web page offers a nice description of the
script's functions.

Best, Matthias
_____________________________________
Matthias Steffens     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
       http://www.extracts.de

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