On 21-May-06, at 1:49 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
Arbitrary is a pretty strong word in the context of BBEdit. Remember
that BBEdit does need to read an entire file into memory, virtual or
otherwise, before it can run that script.
OK, I'll take the word back. I used the S&R approach to convert lists
of just under 600 Mb in size, columnizing the lists before breaking
them into smaller files for import into Excel. That was arbitrary
enough for me.
The tab separators don't seem to answer the original poster's
question. I think it turned out that he wanted a visually clean
display of monospaced fonts for which the "columns" can have different
widths. If the lines which are destined to become the first column are
long and the others are short the tab characters are pretty much
useless in BBEdit. Think of a listing of stock prices for which
external reasons require that the spelled-out company names come
first. DXF files are another example where the start of a new row - or
command if you think that way - are identified by the lack of a
leading space in a line of a /r/n terminated file.
Well without the specifics of the OP's application it's impossible to
judge, but the OP's question was
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.
which the search and replace strings accomplish. I believe he also
wanted to do it within BBEdit. However, in a later post it appeared he
also wanted to columnize by column rather than by row, and a script is
more appropriate in the absence of the plug-in he was looking for.
Some call it laziness: I call it 'conservation of energy'
Peter Tattersall
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