This is a Windows application to view delimited text or Json files. Json files are flattened to fit in tabular format. It’s designed to be robust and easy to use.

The application has a MSI installer that does not need administrative right.

The application can:

• Determine the appropriate Code Page (teh .NET 7 version deos not support as mayn code tables, by now some are rarely used)

• Determines the Field Delimiter & Record Separator

• Determine the Quoting Character

• Determine Escape Characters

• Determine Comment Text

• Determine the Start Row skipping comment lines

• Configurable handling of quotes, support exotic quoting like context senitive quoting

• Issues warning for column content that that does contain certain characters like Nonbreaking Space, Unknown Text placeholders, quotes or delimiters, as these chars can cause issues in other text parsers.

• Use typed values in contrast to text values (Switching between typed and text values in UI), it does currently check 386 date formats.

• Support for basic HTML and Markdown handling

• Display of text file

• Support for Zip, gZip and PGP files (does not properly support display of raw file)

• Issues warning for column content cannot be parsed with the current setting e.g. a date in different format.

• Ability to combine Date and Time columns to a combined Date/Time column with support of time zone conversion, either by third column or fixed value.

• Automated re-alignment of columns in case a delimiter causes issues with column alignment (configurable, default off)

• Automated re-alignment of column in case a linefeed pushes columns into the next line (configurable, default off)

• Filtering of Columns

• Sorting of Columns

• Hiding/Reordering Columns

• Above column configuration can be saved and loaded

• Incremental Searching and highlighting for Text (This feature is rather slow, better use filtering)

• Display of Column Length

• Display of Hierarchy inside the file

• Display Duplicates Values

• Display Unique Values

• Filter for rows / columns with warnings

• HTML Copy and Paste for storing cut values in Excel / Word, retaining value types

• Ability to store the filtered data into delimited text file

Donwload at: Sourceforge

This application does use various NuGet libraries:

• Ben.Demystifier: Improved display of stack trace
• Serilog: Logging Platform
• FastColoredTextBox: Display of source file with highlighting
• UTF.Unknown: Detect character set for files
• Newtonsoft.Json: Support for Json files, and serialisation of configuration
• WindowsAPICodePack: Ability to use new Windows Vista functionality for file dialogs
• Markdown: Ability to convert Markdown to HTML Text
• SharpZipLib: Compression Library, ability open compressed files on the fly
• TimeZoneConverter: Support for Unix and Windows Timezone names
• System.Text.Encoding.CodePages: Support for old code pages in .NET5+ like Windows-1252
• BouncyCatle.OpenPgP: Support for PGP encraypted files reading (needs priivate kley and passphrase) and writing (needs public key of recipient)
• Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions: Interface for abstraction of logging