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by rconn
Sun Mar 24, 2013 5:13 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Sorting?
Replies: 1
Views: 4415

Sorting?

Hi Simon:

Any updates on the status of the sort filter fix, and the x64 textpipeengine.dll?
by rconn
Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:22 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: TextPipe 9.3
Replies: 1
Views: 4215

TextPipe 9.3

Hi:

Has any progress been made with the sort filter in 9.3?
by rconn
Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:38 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Extra character added with simple filter?
Replies: 1
Views: 4249

Extra character added with simple filter?

Using the textpipeengine.dll version 9.1, Windows 7 x64: If I use the simple filter #23 (MIME Encode) on the source file, and then pass the resulting file to a filter #24 (MIME Decode), the resulting file is not identical to the original source -- it has a trailing 0x0F character added at the end. Rex
by rconn
Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:57 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Grep filter and countMatches
Replies: 1
Views: 4034

Grep filter and countMatches

Hi Simon: Not sure if this is confusion in the documentation or something wrong with the Grep filter: Using the TextPipe Engine, I'm calling addGrepFilter with "countMatches=1". The help says: countMatches - true to only output a count of the number of matches, default False But what it ac...
by rconn
Mon May 28, 2012 9:16 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Textpipe Engine cut option (columns / field)
Replies: 4
Views: 6611

Re: Textpipe Engine cut option (columns / field)

Hi Simon:

I haven't been able to figure this out in the GUI either -- if you can provide an example using the TextPipe GUI, I can export the filter to Javascript and interpret the addSelectionFilter syntax from there.

Thanks.
by rconn
Mon May 28, 2012 8:56 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Textpipe Engine cut option (columns / field)
Replies: 4
Views: 6611

Re: Textpipe Engine cut option (columns / field)

OK, but I still don't understand how to do a "cut". Say I want to extract columns 20 - 40 and put them in a new file. The "copy" duplicates 20-40, and inserts it at the beginning of the line. The "move" moves 20-40 to column 1, but I still have the unwanted 1-20 followi...
by rconn
Mon May 28, 2012 3:29 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Textpipe Engine cut option (columns / field)
Replies: 4
Views: 6611

Textpipe Engine cut option (columns / field)

Hi Simon: I'm trying to figure out how to use textpipeengine.dll to cut text (i.e., by columns or fields). I'm assuming from the docs that I want the "addSelectionFilter" -- is that true? The docs say it "almost always requires sub filters in order to have any effect". Is that st...
by rconn
Thu May 17, 2012 12:11 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: TextPipe engine is always writing to an (unwanted) log file
Replies: 4
Views: 7720

Re: TextPipe engine is always writing to an (unwanted) log f

I kludged around it for now by putting a TerminateProcess() at the end of my app so that textpipeengine.dll wouldn't have a chance to run its exit code. I'm unsure that it wont cause a problem if there's any code that textpipeengine.dll *should* be running when it exits, but it does work around the ...
by rconn
Wed May 16, 2012 11:57 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: TextPipe engine is always writing to an (unwanted) log file
Replies: 4
Views: 7720

Re: TextPipe engine is always writing to an (unwanted) log f

I poked around a bit, and found that the "c:\aemail" directory and the "datamystic.log" file were being created at shutdown. Apparently it's in the textpipeengine.dll shutdown code, because I can't do anything to avoid executing that code from my app.
by rconn
Tue May 15, 2012 1:30 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: TextPipe engine is always writing to an (unwanted) log file
Replies: 4
Views: 7720

TextPipe engine is always writing to an (unwanted) log file

The TextPipe Engine is creating a log file C:\AEMAIL\DATAMYSTIC.LOG every time it's run. Where is that coming from, and can it be disabled?
by rconn
Tue May 15, 2012 1:28 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files
Replies: 13
Views: 15710

Re: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files

Internally, TextPipe works with text on a character-by-character basis (ANSI/ASCII), although UTF-8 works fine. UTF-8 *mostly* works, but there are some places (like in the column wrapping filters) where TextPipe counts 2 & 3-byte UTF-8 characters as 2 and 3 characters, so the right column is w...
by rconn
Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:02 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files
Replies: 13
Views: 15710

Re: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files

OK, after poking around some more I found the undocumented addUnicodeConversionFilter2 API, which hopefully will do what I need (once I figure out the possible string arguments). But I'm still wondering about #2 -- how is TextPipe handling the text internally? The Unicode support appears somewhat ha...
by rconn
Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:07 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files
Replies: 13
Views: 15710

Re: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files

TextPipe doesn't do anything you don't tell it to, so it won't convert the file to and from Unicode either. So at the top of your filter list, add a Convert UTF16LE to UTF-8 filter, and at the bottom, the reverse. Hmm -- I tried to add this to my code, but there doesn't appear to be any (documented...
by rconn
Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:17 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files
Replies: 13
Views: 15710

Re: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files

Hi Simon: I didn't want TextPipe to convert the file from / to Unicode; I wanted it to remain in Unicode but insert the (Unicode!) CR/LF's at the new column width. Instead, the file remained in Unicode but had ASCII CR/LF strings inserted, converting the file from Unicode to gibberish. I can check t...
by rconn
Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:06 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files
Replies: 13
Views: 15710

Re: addNumberFilter is mishandling Unicode files

I just tried it with the TextPipe GUI (Wrap filter), and it does the same thing. (The GUI also refuses to process the Unicode text file unless I tell it not to skip binary files -- should it be treating a Unicode text file as binary?)