Demo -- File Merge and Split

Join many files vertically(append) with Name and Time Stamp

Example:

Join 3 files together and add header: --- Filename --- Date ---

Settings:

1) Turn on option of "Use Batch mode filename in batch mode"

2) Enter an output filename if output file is required

3) Change the ">" symbol between inpage and outpage to ">> Append"

4) Advanced Page-> Insert Begin Text=--- $FILENAME --- current_date() ---

5) Click "Batch..." button, and select file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt, then click "Replace"

Join many files horizontally(Column append)

Example:

Join 3 files together horizontally

Settings:

1) Turn on option of "Use Batch mode filename in batch mode"

2) Enter an output filename if output file is required

3) Change the ">" symbol between inpage and outpage to ">>> Column Append"

4) Click "Batch..." button, and select fileA.txt, fileB.txt, fileC.txt, then click "Replace"

Split file horizontally(by column)

Example:

Split file to many files, each has 1 column

Settings:

1) Enter Output filename:test

2) Advanced Page->Run Following at the beginning of the replace=

$word_input_delimiter='\t+'

3) Turn on "split output into multi-file by column" option

4) Click "Replace" button, file test.001,test.002,test.003 will be generated

Split file vertically(by line or paragraph)

Example 1:

Split file to many files, each has 3 lines

Settings:

1) Enter Output filename:test

2) Advanced Page->Run Following at the beginning of the replace=

$paragraph_start_line=undef;

$paragraph_end_line=undef;

$max_para_line='3';

3) Turn on "split output into multi-file by paragraph delimiter" option

4) Click "Replace" button, file test.001,test.002,test.003 will be generated

Example 2:

Split file to many files, splited from line containing 'NAME'

Settings:

1) Enter Output filename:test

2) Advanced Page->Run Following at the beginning of the replace=

$paragraph_start_line='NAME';

$paragraph_end_line=undef;

$max_para_line='0';

3) Turn on "split output into multi-file by paragraph delimiter" option

4) Click "Replace" button, file test.001,test.002,... will be generated

Notes:

1. Since version 2.0, powerful feature of splitting file by fixed columns or lines is supported, user can set column width to 3,3,4,4 to split files by width 3,3,4,4,4,4... characters.

2. Since version 2.0, the splitted files can be named by customized rules, such as file001.txt, file.new.001, 00001_file, ...

3. File split can also be finished from Menu File->SaveAs->Split by Paragraph/Column/Bytes/Lines