Flat File Extractor 0.1.7 review

Flat File Extractor can be used for reading different flat file structures and printing them in different formats

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Timo Savinen

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Flat File Extractor can be used for reading different flat file structures and printing them in different formats. ffe is a command line tool developed in GNU/Linux environment and it is distributed under GNU General Public License 2 or later.

Main areas of use are:

Extracting particular fields or records from a flat file
Converting data from one format to an other, e.g. from CSV to fixed length
Verifying a flat file structure
Testing tool for flat file development
Displaying flat file content in human readable form

Here are some key features of "Flat File Extractor":
Command-line tool
Reads standard input and writes to standard output as default
One input file can contain several types of records (lines)
Fields in a flat file can be fixed length or separated
Input file structure and output definitions are independent, meaning one output format can be used with several input files
Input file structure and output format are 'freely' configurable, they are not predefined
Output can be formatted e.g. as: fixed length, separated, tokenized, XML, SQL,...
ffe tries to guess the input format, user needs not to give it as a parameter

What's New in This Release:
Output directive '%p' and option '-r,--replace' has been added