{"id":24373,"date":"2020-09-25T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=24373"},"modified":"2020-09-25T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:57:10","slug":"freeware-textworx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/freeware-textworx\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeware: TextWorx"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a relatively new entry in genuine Windows freeware for complex text-manipulation, and this hadn’t been found when I made my summer 2019 survey of Freeware for cleaning and manipulation of text lists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s TextWorx by bgmCoder<\/a>, a “Universal Text Manipulator”. It lives up to the name, in terms of being able to use it with any text-editor. Highlight the text block you want to work with. Press a keyboard shortcut. Up pops a well-organised tool offering a huge range of “advanced text-manipulation routines”.<\/p>\n

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The default keyboard shortcut required to trigger the menu is a bit of a contortionist show-stopper, or else it requires you to remove your hand from the mouse:<\/p>\n

Win key + K<\/strong> or Win key + shift + K<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

But the shortcut is not hardwired and can be changed in the .INI file. And it’s easy enough to trigger a keyboard shortcut with a mouse-gesture<\/a>. Choose a gesture that ends up somewhere suitable on the screen, since your mouse-cursor position is where the TextWorx interface will appear.<\/p>\n

What it doesn’t seem to have is regex functions. It can’t thus function as a handy regex ‘key-ring’. For instance it can’t do things like “Extract all text found between KEYWORD1 and KEYWORD2 to a new List”. For that you’d want regex or Sobolsoft’s \u00a320 “Extract Data Between Two Strings” utility software, which saves the extracted substrings as a list. Or you could save \u00a320 by doing the same with this tested-and-working regex and a copy of the free Notepad++…<\/p>\n

FIND:         .*?KEYWORD1(.*?)KEYWORD2|.+<\/strong>
\nREPLACE:    \\1\\r\\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a relatively new entry in genuine Windows freeware for complex text-manipulation, and this hadn’t been found when I made …<\/p>\n

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