Need help parsing a text file...

[Quixfire]

I have a 1.6GB text file I need to search for a single record, whoopie. The problem I have is my computer won't open the file in any of my text editors.

Is there a way to parse a text file and read/search a section or percentage of it at a time?

Thanks for your reply in advance.

Edit: Typo

 

[bunker]

Have you tried http://www.textpad.com ??

I haven't had to open a file that big with it yet, but have opened some pretty damn large ones.

 

[calpha]

Ultraedit is your friend.

Free 30 day fully functional demo. I think it can open 4 GB Files. It will take a long time to open....but it should work.

Buut...maybe it's a 2gb file limitation....dont' remmeber.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

A text editor? You guys are on crack 😛

I would just grep it if you only need one line or N number of lines surrounding it.

 

[Smilin]

Uh.

Try the 'find' command from a dos prompt. It was written in like 1985 or something and works just as well today. Plus it's already on your windows PC.

 

[notfred]

grep "record contents" filename.txt

 

[hudster]

if you're stuck in windows world, and don't have grep, there's grep-like ports/programs such as these:

wingrep
grep for windows

or just do a search on google for "grep windows" (without the quotes), and I'm sure there'll be many other grep ports that you'll find.

 

[Quixfire]

I used textpad and search the text files and found matching records.

Thanks for all your replies! 😀

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