As a Windows software developer for many years I had a directory with all small utility programs including many Unix utilities that I put on every system that I had to work on. This worked fine for many years until I switched to Windows 7 and all these command line tools stopped working. I had to make a choice to recompile all these programs for Windows 7 or collect all the features of these small utility programs and merge them into one portable Windows application. I chose the development of the portable Windows application PragtTextUtil (PTU) that I hereby offer as a freeware application, for everyone that does development or maintenance on Windows based computers. Regards, {-Hein Pragt}.
What kind of application is PragtTextUtil
PragtTextUtil is not an text editor although the basic functions to edit text are present in the program. The program aims to perform operations on text such as converting to upper or lowercase letters or removing HTML tags and converting them to neat paragraphs. But also operations as trim, uniq, sort and filtering are present in this application and also a complex operation to generate a sorted word frequency overview to be able to determine, for example, good keywords for a web page. For example, you can filter from a log file all lines that contain a certain word or not a contain a certain word. Also a nice option is search and replace with the ability to use CTRL characters in the search but also the replace text.
As input, the program of course can read all forms of plain text files, but also files as hex/ascii dump, html pages, web pages via an HTTP request (simple wget) to get the exact response of an internet server. But you can also load the contents of your directory into the text editor to for example, create a sorted list of all your music. (Under Windows, it’s still not possible to cut and paste the list from the explorer). You can also use the output of a command line read command directly into the text editor. With the function to request a web page you can load the HTML of this page into the text editor after which you can easily remove all HTML tags and scripting and then convert the bare text to neat paragraphs that you can further edit in your favorite word processor. This allows you, for example, to also retrieve texts from sites that try to block the cutting and copying of the text.
Menu options overview
| File New Open as text Open as Unicode text Open as text (read first 50 lines) Open as text (read last 50 lines) Open and convert to hex/ascii Open from HTTP Open and pipe command line Save text Save text As Read directory listing (date/size/name) Read directory listing (names) Search trough files Compare files Exit Edit Undo Select All Copy to clipboard Cut to clipboard Paste from clipboard Delete selection Search text Replace text Goto line | Operations ToUpper selection ToLower selection Smart ToLower to paragraphs Whitespace to single space Whitespace to single space (save linebreaks) ToWordList (whitespace to inebreaks) Count lines, words, characters Words statistics (whole document) Sort Sort selection Asc Sort selection Desc Sort selection Asc (Ignore case) Sort selection Desc (Ignore case) Filter Strip html (add linebreaks) Format html Trim leading and trailing spaces Uniq the selection Uniq the selection with count Filter the selection (delete all except) Remove in the selection (delete all that contain) UTF-8 to iso-8859-1 UTF-8 to plain ascii (remove diacrites) \n (Unix) to \n\r (Dos/Windows) Help About |
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This program is digitally signed with my own code certificate and it is trusted by Microsoft windows.
Previous releases
Download. (Version 1.04 Jul 2011)
Download. (Version 1.03 Jul 2011)
Download. (Version 1.02 Jun 2011)
