I need to append 1 text file to another text file.
I've done several keyword searches, and keep coming up with instructions on adding text to an existing file ... which is not the same as appending one text file to another text file.
In a well-designed language, it might look something like the line below, with the contents of source2 added to source1.
Append(path/source1, path/source2, ResultCode)
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I want to save result of search and replace feature of PowerGREP to excel or csv file that contains separate column for replaced by, full file name and what is replaced.
Can anyone help on this ?
I know we can export result (as text file) but that's not what I need.
I have two text files containing many lines of data (they are just some linux paths). The order of the paths are different in both files. I need Beyond Compare to compare the files based on content. Right now, it is checking line by line and pointing out errors if the same content is not present in the corresponding lines. I want beyondcompare to go through the entire file before saying that some path is missing. How to do it?
You can make Beyond Compare 4 sort the files before comparison. Open the files in the Text Compare, then click the dropdown on the right side of the Format toolbar button and select Sorted.
I have a file names.txt with this data:
NAME;AGE;
alberto;22
andrea;51
ana;16
and I want to add a new column N with the line number of the row:
N;NAME;AGE;
1;alberto;22
2;andrea;51
3;ana;16
I've been looking and what I found was something related with Add sequence. I tried but I don't know how.
Thank you very much.
The Add Sequence step will get the job done, but you don't even need that. Both the CSV file input and Text file input steps can add a row number to the input rows. For the 'CSV file input' step it's called 'The row number field name (optional)'.
For Text file input, check the 'Rownum in output?' box on the Content tab and fill in the 'Rownum fieldname' text box.
I'm really baffled why you couldn't figure out the Add sequence step. It should work with no changes at all. Just drop it in and connect the output of the csv file to it and the sequence should appear as a field name called 'valuename'. I would change that personally, but still, it should work.
How can I append text to the end a line in a text file with lines already there in VB.NET?
For example my text file looks like this:
header1,header2,header3
value1,value2,value3
stuff1,stuff2,stuff3
and I want to add new text to the end of each line so it looks like this:
header1,header2,header3,newheader
value1,value2,value3,newvalue
stuff1,stuff2,stuff3,newstuff
I know that in Perl you can point to the line and then act on it, is there some VB.net way to do this?
If the file isn't too big, the simplest is, probably, to use the IO.File.ReadAllLines method to read the file into memory and modify the data and write it back with the WriteAllLines method.
For very large files you're probably looking at reading each line modifying it and writing it to a different file.
I have a scenario and would like to see if anyone has any suggestions on how I should tackle it. Basically I have a directory full of files, document names consist of [Code]-[number]-[text]
CODE - A generic 3 letter code.
NUMBER - a number generally 4 - 5 digits in size.
TEXT - original document name (Before it was dumped).
CODE, NUMBER and TEXT are separated by a colon (-). Number always starts at the 5 character.
I would like to somehow scan that directory and extract the number from the filename, I would then like to compare that number to a field in a database (SQL query fairly straight forward, could also extract as raw text) If the number matches the number in the database I would like to separate those files.
If I need to clarify anything please ask. I wasn't sure if this site is appropriate for my query.
Open the root folder, click in the file explorer path (in open space off to the side so the whole path gets highlighted), type cmd and hit enter to open a command prompt from that folder location.
Type: dir /b /s > filelist.txt to get a list of all file names. You can exclude /s if you don't need/want to dig down into subfolders.
I'd paste that into excel, if you have 2013 you can just start typing the part you want to extract, after you type the full first line when you start typing the next line it will recognize the pattern and you can just hit enter to fill down.
Otherwise, use Data > Text to Columns and specify - as a delimiter.
Likewise you could just import the filelist, separate them in SQL using SUBSTRING() or similar. When you have your matching filenames you can just use some concatenation to build a COPY or MOVE .bat file, pretty easy in SQL or Excel.