Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Delimited file viewer (A utility to read delimited files)

I have been using this little utility quite for some time. And I thought It was about time I shared it with the rest of my community.

It's called DelimitedFileViewer (Was unable to come up with a funkier name;) ). I had created the first working version of this way back in November 2007. After a lot of cosmetic improvements, it works well and looks good. There are a lots of features like Finding stuff and Sorting stuff on one of the fields. It also has a nice drag and drop feature which lets you drag and drop files onto the application. Click on the following link to download this utility
http://minhajuddinz.googlepages.com/DelimitedFileViewerV1.zip
The following are a few screenshots:

Without any file:


With a test file:
After sorting the test file on the emp field

7 comments:

Minhajuddin said...

Please leave a few comments on what you think about this utility :D

DS User said...

Nice!

tkbharani said...

Hi

I just tested your utility. its cool and useful for windows gui.I have read many post of urs in dsxchange .Do you have any utility for viewing fixed width records. In unix its very difficult for viewing fixed width records incase if exceeds 20.
Bharani
Datastage

Anshul said...

Hi , cool utility.Have any idea or utility to read datasets ( apart from datastage job)

Anonymous said...

Excellent utility, almost solves my purpose. Except that I need to set the default Encoding and Delimiter each time I open a file.

I am opening Comma-delimited and UTF-8 files and this util would've been perfect if I didn't have to set it each time. Is there a quick way to save the last settings in the util? I noticed that the Options (under Tools) are also disabled. I'll track your site in case you have any feedback on this. Thanks!

pankajdev said...

hi is it a open source delimated file reader , if yes kindly let me know how i can contribute or i can add more feature to it , for some of my project i would like to add custom feature as my needs.

with regards

meena said...

Hey minhaj,

Very useful post on datastage certification :)

Glad I was ur team mate in the past :P