TextConverter

Change Log

On this page, you can find the history of changes made to the program TextConverter.

• Size Storage (2023-06-06): Improved storage of the program window size, the column widths and the program layout under high DPI conditions.
• New Function of the File List (2023-04-25): Via the context menu of the file list (right mouse button) and the new menu item "Remove Binary Files", you can remove all binary files from the file list so that only editable text files remain.
• References in File Names (2023-04-14): Placeholders for references can now also be used in the text fields of the storage options (folder, name, file extension). This makes it possible, for example, to use single or multiple characters, words or lines of the content of the file within the file name for storage. You can learn more about this in the tutorial about using references in the section "References in File Names".
• Replacement of disallowed Characters in File Names (2023-04-13): With the new option "Settings > General > File Name > Replacement for disallowed Characters in File Names", a character or text can be defined with which illegal characters such as ":" or "/" are replaced in the file name. An empty text is also possible. This replacement may be necessary, for example, if you use references within file names that refer to text containing characters that are not allowed to be used in filenames.
• Numbering of splitted Files (2023-04-11): The numbering of the individual files of a file split can now be individualized with the new placeholders %part_num% and %part_abs%. These two placeholders can be used both in the content of the file as well as in the file name. In addition, the new option "Number File Names of Parts only if necessary" can be used to control whether an automatic numbering of the file name should only take place optionally or always. More on this in the tutorial about separating files in the sections "Placeholders for the Numbering of the Parts" and "Configuration of the File Names of the Parts".
• New Functional Placeholder for References (2023-03-21): With the new functional placeholder for references "inc" you can increase or decrease numbers within the text of a reference by any value.
• New Parameters (2023-03-17): With the new parameters "ph" and "ref" you can activate and deactivate placeholders respectively references within the script control of the TextConverter.
• New Filter (2023-02-27): If you prefix the filter for the file extensions with a minus sign, only files with a different file extension than the specified one will be found. For example, the filter "-csv,xml" excludes all files with the formats CSV or XML.
• New Function of the File List (2023-02-26): Via the context menu of the file list (right mouse button) and the new menu item "List Properties", a summary overview of all files in the file list broken down by their format can be displayed.
• Extension of the Reference Function (2023-02-13): In the references to characters, words and lines, the character positions, word positions respectively line numbers can now alternatively also be specified counted from the end by using negative values for the respective parameters.
• New Option of the Storage Options (2023-02-05): Keep date of the original file, configurable via the graphical user interface as well as the new parameter "date=keep" for the script control.
• Text Filter and Line Filter for References (2023-01-31): With the new functional placeholders for references find_text as well as find_lines and delete_lines, the text of the reference can be filtered on the text level or on the level of its lines. The filters can also be used to limit multiple hits of a reference (for example, if a selector of a reference to an XML file matches multiple texts or attribute values).
• New Functional Placeholders for References (2023-01-27): With the new functional placeholders for references rpad and lpad, the text of the reference can be padded on the left or on the right with any text to any length.
• New Functional Placeholders for References (2023-01-26): With the new functional placeholders for references append and insert, an arbitrary text can be appended and inserted.
• New Functional Placeholders for References (2023-01-23): With the new functional placeholders for references replace, replace_regex, delete, delete_regex, delete_chars, trim, write and rewrite, you can perform replacements and deletions in the text of the reference and you can rewrite the text or change its case.
• New Feature for References (2023-01-23): Functional placeholders for references, with which the text of the reference can be edited and rewritten even before it is inserted. For example, the placeholder %ref:line=1>write=uppercase% stands for the content of the first line written in uppercase letters.
• Combination of References (2023-01-22): Several references can now be combined with each other as desired, for example, the placeholder %ref:line=3>word=2>char=1% stands for the first character of the second word of the third line.
• New References (2023-01-21): Placeholders for references to inner texts (%ref:xml=x%) and attribute values of XML files (%ref:xml=x>attribute=y%).
• New References (2023-01-19): Placeholders for references to external text files (%ref:file=x%) and the text that is currently being edited (%ref:file=self%).
• New Reference (2023-01-17): Placeholder for references to fields of CSV data (%ref:cell=x:y%).
• New References (2023-01-14): Placeholders for references to multiple characters, words, or lines (%ref:chars=x-y%, %ref:chars=x,y%, %ref:words=x-y%, %ref:words=x,y%, %ref:lines=x-y% and %ref:lines=x,y%).
• New References (2023-01-13): Placeholders for references to individual characters, words or lines (%ref:char=x%, %ref:word=x% und %ref:line=x%).
• New Function (2023-01-13): The new function "References" provides placeholders that can be used to insert entire texts as well as parts of the current text or of other text files in the actions of the TextConverter (Actions > Options > References).
• New Options for the Trim Function in Action Lists (2023-01-11): Removement of an arbitrary selection of characters from the beginning and/or from the end of the entire text, from lines, from CSV fields as well as from inner texts, tag names, attribute values and attribute names within an XML structure.
• New Function of the File List (2023-01-07): Copy file paths to the clipboard (so far it was only possible to copy files into the clipboard).
• New Placeholders (2023-01-05): The new placeholders %name,wordX%, %name,wordexX%, %folderY,wordX% and %folderY,wordexX% make it possible to take only the Xth word from the file name respectively from the folder name of the folder number Y from the file path. With negative values for X or Y you can also count from above.
• New Placeholders (2022-12-16): With the new placeholders %folderX,Y,Z% and %folder-X,Y,Z% you can insert the characters Y to Z of the name of the Xth folder from the file path from below respectively from above.
• Text to DOCX/ODT Conversion (2022-11-23): Text files can now also be exported as documents of the formats DOCX and ODT. To do this, just select one of the file extensions DOCX or ODT from the storage options.
• CSV to XLSX/ODS Conversion (2022-11-13): CSV data and CSV files can now also be exported as spreadsheets of the formats XLSX and ODS. To do this, just select one of the file extensions XLSX or ODS from the storage options.
• CSV to XML Conversion (2022-11-09): With the new action "Actions > Format > CSV to XML", CSV data can be converted into an XML structure. With an option you can choose whether the CSV fields should be transferred into the XML structure either as independent nodes or in the form of attributes.
• CSV to SQL Conversion (2022-11-08): With the new options for the function "CSV to SQL Conversion", you can now generate INSERT commands with or without columns as well as UPDATE commands. The INSERT commands can now either be created as individual commands or as a common command for all lines.
• New Actions (2022-11-07): With the new actions "CSV to HTML" and "CSV to SQL" in the new section "Format" (format and data conversion) you can now convert CSV data into an HTML table or into SQL instructions.
• Adjustments of the User Interface (2022-10-22): Adjustments of the program windows and dialogs for an improved display under high-dpi resolution conditions.
• Remove all Characters before or after a Text (2022-09-28): New action in the section "Trim" for removing all characters before or after an arbitrary text from the complete text, from arbitrary lines, from arbitrary fields in CSV data as well as from inner texts and attribute values of XML data (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• Remove Number of Characters (2022-09-06): New action in the section "Trim" for removing any number of characters from the beginning and/or from the end of the entire text, from arbitrary lines, from arbitrary fields in CSV data as well as from inner texts and attribute values of XML data (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• Join Files (2022-08-31): In addition to the possibility to insert a text between the individual files to be joined, there are now also the possibilities to define a text that is written in front of the files and to define a text that is written behind the files.
• New Possibilities for the File Split (2022-08-18): New options "Divide Files at Line Breaks" (each line as a new separate file) and "Divide Files after a certain Number of Characters" for the action "Split Files". Before, the separation was only possible on a text or a regular expression.
• New Placeholders (2022-08-06): With the parameter "info" for showing file information via script, now also the placeholders for the file name, the folder, the file size and the date can be used.
• System Integration (2022-07-31): Possibility to integrate the TextConverter into the "Send to" context menu of the Windows Explorer in order to open files and folders with files in the TextConverter for editing directly from the Explorer by right-click. You can find the option in the menu "Settings > System Integration > Context Menu".
• New Parameter (2022-07-21): With the new parameter "info" for the batch version of the TextConverter, you can show information about the passed file in the console. Via this parameter, a string can be passed containing arbitrary characters and the placeholders %enc%, %bom%, %encbom%, %lb%, %lines%, %chars% and %words%. Example: TextConverter -cl file.txt "info=%enc% %lb% - %words% words in %lines% lines"
• New Selectors (2022-07-19): With the new selectors WITH_VALUES, WITH_VALUES_NOT, WITH_VALUES_GREATER_THAN, WITH_VALUES_SMALLER_THAN, WITH_VALUES_EQUAL_OR_GREATER_THAN, WITH_VALUES_EQUAL_OR_SMALLER_THAN and WITH_VALUES_MOD for the actions SELECT_CELLS and DESELECT_CELLS, it is possible to edit only those fields of CSV data or CSV files that have a certain value or whose value corresponds to certain criteria.
• Removal of the FileRenamer (2022-07-01): The component "FileRenamer", which could be invoked via the menu "Tools", was removed from the TextConverter. The FileRenamer was spun off as an independent program from the TextConverter and can be downloaded here. The scope of the functions of the FileRenamer has increased over the times so that this program no longer makes sense as a mini tool.
• New Program Version (2022-07-01): Introduction of the new version TextConverter Pro XML for the editing of XML data and XML files.
• New Languages (2022-07-01): Español (Spanish) and Français (French).
• New Placeholders (2022-05-30): New placeholders %name,x,y% and %ext,x,y% to use only a part of the file name or the file extension (from character x to character y).
• New Column (2022-05-23): With the new column "First Characters" you can display the first characters of the files in the file list.
• New Parameters (2022-05-18): With the new parameters a, a1, a2, a3 and so on as well as al, al1, al2, al3 and so on, individual actions or entire action lists can be passed when calling the TextConverter via the command line or script for the processing of files. The parameters can be combined freely, you can find an explanation here.
• New Action (2022-05-15): Add new columns to CSV data or CSV files (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Action (2022-05-14): Add new rows to CSV data or CSV files (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Action (2022-05-09): Add new elements to XML data or XML files (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Action (2022-05-05): Add new attributes to XML data or XML files (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Action List Action (2022-05-01): In addition to the sorting of all lines (SORT_LINES ALL UP/DOWN), it is now also possible to sort only certain lines and to leave the other lines as they are (for example SORT_LINES 3-7 UP/DOWN).
• New Action List Action (2022-04-26): Replace Fields (REPLACE_CELLS).
• Selection of Cells for CSV Actions in Action Lists (2022-04-23): With the new CSV actions for action lists SELECT_CELLS and DESELECT_CELLS, you can select or deselect cells according to certain criteria for their later processing. In addition to the options "All Columns" and "All Rows" as well as the possibility to specify column numbers and line numbers, the existing CSV actions receive the further options "Selected Columns" and "Selected Rows". If one of these options is activated, the corresponding action is assigned to all previously selected cells. With this method, a significantly more flexible selection of cells for processing is possible than before. Initially, the following selectors are available: WITH_CELLNUMBERS, WITH_CELLNUMBERS_NOT, WITH_COLUMNNUMBERS, WITH_COLUMNNUMBERS_NOT, WITH_COLUMNNUMBERS_GREATER_THAN, WITH_COLUMNNUMBERS_SMALLER_THAN, WITH_COLUMNNUMBERS_MOD, WITH_ROWNUMBERS, WITH_ROWNUMBERS_NOT, WITH_ROWNUMBERS_GREATER_THAN, WITH_ROWNUMBERS_SMALLER_THAN, WITH_ROWNUMBERS_MOD, CONTAINING_TEXT, NOT_CONTAINING_TEXT, MATCHING_TEXT, NOT_MATCHING_TEXT, STARTING_WITH_TEXT, NOT_STARTING_WITH_TEXT, CONTAINING_WHITESPACE, CONTAINING_NO_WHITESPACE, CONTAINING_ONLY_WHITESPACE, CONTAINING_ONLY_WHITESPACE_OR_EMPTY, CONTAINING_DIGITS, CONTAINING_NO_DIGITS, CONTAINING_ONLY_DIGITS, CONTAINING_ONLY_DIGITS_OR_SEPARATORS, WITH_MORE_CHARS_THAN, WITH_LESS_CHARS_THAN, WITH_NUMBER_OF_CHARS, EMPTY, NOT_EMPTY and ALL. More will follow.
• New Action (2022-04-22): Change writing of specific Lines. So far it was only possible to change the writing of the entire text.
• Clipboard Button (2022-04-21): With the new button "Clipboard", the current result of the conversion (that is the text from the preview field) can be copied into the clipboard without having to save the file.
• Editor for Action Lists (2022-04-13): A check function was built in the editor for action lists, which can check whether all of the required fields are filled out when adding a new action.
• New Selectors (2022-04-06): STARTING_WITH_TEXT, NOT_STARTING_WITH_TEXT, WITH_LINENUMBERS_NOT, WITH_LINENUMBERS_FROM_BEHIND, WITH_MORE_CHARS_THAN, WITH_LESS_CHARS_THAN and WITH_NUMBER_OF_CHARS for SELECT_LINES and DESELECT_LINES.
• New Option (2022-03-31): "Repeat" for the CSV action "Insert Text" and the XML action "Insert Text". If this option is active, the text to be inserted is not only inserted once at the insertion position but all X characters where X corresponds to the specified insertion position.
• New Selectors (2022-03-31): EMPTY, NOT_EMPTY, CONTAINING_WHITESPACE, CONTAINING_NO_WHITESPACE, CONTAINING_ONLY_WHITESPACE, CONTAINING_ONLY_WHITESPACE_OR_EMPTY, CONTAINING_DIGITS, CONTAINING_NO_DIGITS, CONTAINING_ONLY_DIGITS, CONTAINING_ONLY_DIGITS_OR_SEPARATORS, WITH_LINENUMBERS_GREATER_THAN, WITH_LINENUMBERS_SMALLER_THAN for SELECT_LINES and DESELECT_LINES.
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-30): Rewrite text and lines (REWRITE, REWRITE_LINES) with the options REMOVE_DOUBLE_SPACES, REMOVE_DOUBLE_TABS, REMOVE_DOUBLE_LINEBREAKS, REMOVE_DOUBLE_WHITESPACE, REMOVE_DIACRITICS, REPLACE_DIACRITICS, SEPARATE_CAMELCASE, ENCODE_URL, DECODE_URL, ENCODE_HTMLENTITIES, DECODE_HTMLENTITIES, ENCODE_XMLCHARS, DECODE_XMLCHARS, INSERT_HTML_LINEBREAKS, REMOVE_TAGS, LINK_WEBSITES and LINK_EMAILS.
• New Action List Action (2022-03-30): Change the order of the columns of CSV data or CSV files (ORDER_COLUMNS).
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-29): Delete elements or attributes from XML data or XML files (DELETE_ELEMENTS, DELETE_ATTRIBUTES).
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-28): Delete text from attribute names and attribute values of XML data or XML files (DELETE_IN_ATTRIBUTENAMES, DELETE_IN_ATTRIBUTEVALUES).
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-28): Replace in attribute names and attribute values of XML data or XML files (REPLACE_IN_ATTRIBUTENAMES, REPLACE_IN_ATTRIBUTEVALUES).
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-27): Change writing of attribute names and attribute values of XML data or XML files (WRITE_ATTRIBUTENAMES, WRITE_ATTRIBUTEVALUES).
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-23): Prepend, append and insert text to or in inner texts, tag names, attribute names or attribute values of XML data or XML files (PREPEND_TO_INNERTEXTS, PREPEND_TO_TAGNAMES, PREPEND_TO_ATTRIBUTENAMES, PREPEND_TO_ATTRIBUTEVALUES, APPEND_TO_INNERTEXTS, APPEND_TO_TAGNAMES, APPEND_TO_ATTRIBUTENAMES, APPEND_TO_ATTRIBUTEVALUES, INSERT_IN_INNERTEXTS, INSERT_IN_TAGNAMES, INSERT_IN_ATTRIBUTENAMES, INSERT_IN_ATTRIBUTEVALUES).
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-22): Remove spaces, tabs and other whitespace from the beginning or from the end of inner texts or attribute values of XML data or XML files (TRIM_XML_INNERTEXTS, TRIM_ATTRIBUTEVALUES).
• New Action List Actions (2022-03-21): Actions for rewriting the entire text (WRITE) as well as specific lines (WRITE_LINES), specific cells in CSV data/files (WRITE_CELLS), specific inner texts of XML data/files (WRITE_XML_INNERTEXTS) or specific tag names of XML data/files (WRITE_XML_TAGNAMES).
• New Action List Action (2022-03-15): Sort Lines (SORT_LINES).
• New Action (2022-03-14): Copy Columns (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Action (2022-03-13): Copy Lines (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Option (2022-03-11): Insert line breaks after breaking HTML tags. With this option you can prevent words from being unintentionally written without space between them when removing HTML tags (for example for a case like "<p>Text</p><p>Text</p>").
• New Action (2022-03-06): Move Lines (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Modes for deleting Text (2022-02-11): With the new mode "Each Character is a separate Deletion", each character from the field is considered individually and deleted from the text. With the new mode "Delete all Characters that are not specified", all characters from the field are also considered individually, but in this mode all characters are deleted from the text that are not listed.
• Verification on unsupported characters (2022-02-07): Before saving a file in a specific encoding, it is now automatically checked whether all characters contained in the file can be stored with the selected encoding. If not, a corresponding warning message is displayed (only during operation via the graphical user interfaces, not when called via command line or script).
• New Option (2022-02-02): "Repeat" for the text action "Insert" and the line action "Insert Text". If this option is active, the text to be inserted is not only inserted once at the insertion position but all X characters where X corresponds to the specified insertion position.
• New CSV Field Separation Type (2022-01-27): In addition to the use of characters for the separation of fields of CSV data (usually comma, semicolon or tab), CSV fields can now also be defined by a fixed character length in the CSV import. In the CSV export, the equivalent "No Character" is now available in order to be able to save CSV data with a fixed field length. Of course, conversions are also possible, for example by reading data with a fixed character length per field or line, in order to then save the data in a different CSV format (for example with a comma, semicolon or tab as a field separator).
• New CSV Field Separation Type (2022-01-26): Up to now, only one particular character could be defined as a field separator (e.g. either the comma or the semicolon). Now, you can also define multiple characters as field separators at the same time (e.g. both the comma as well as the semicolon), on which all a new field begins. The definition is possible either directly via the input of the character as well as by using code points. One of these separator can also consists of several characters.
• New CSV Field Delimiter Type (2022-01-13): In addition to the selection from the preset characters such as single or double quotation marks, you can now also define and use custom characters or strings as a field delimiter. The characters can be specified both directly and in the form of codepoints.
• New CSV Field Separation Type (2022-01-13): In addition to the selection from the preset characters such as comma, semicolon or tab, you can now also define and use custom characters or strings as a field separator. The characters can be specified both directly and in the form of codepoints.
• New CSV Field Separation Type (2022-01-12): With the new field separator "System" for the CSV import and the CSV export, depending on your system settings and language settings, either the comma or the semicolon is used. If, for example, your system uses the comma as a decimal separator for decimal numbers, this setting will use the semicolon for the CSV format.
• Line break on multiple Characters (2022-01-11): Possibility to define a list of several different characters or character combinations at which all, the line is wrapped. The definition of the characters can be done in the form of text or code points. With this option, it is possible to use the TextConverter to normalize files with a mixed line break type (for example, if a file contains both CR and LF line breaks) to files that only have one single line break type after conversion.
• New Line Break Type (2022-01-10): In addition to the vertical tab (U+000B), now also the horizontal tab (U+0009) can be used as a character for a line break (read and write).
• New Line Break Type (2022-01-08): New line break type "No Character" for saving lines with a fixed character length.
• Fixed Line Length (2022-01-07): In addition to the use of characters for line breaks, it is now also possible to define line breaks through a fixed number of characters per line. With this, the TextConverter can be used to convert files with fixed line length into files with any other line break type.
• Custom Character for Line Breaks (2022-01-06): In addition to the preset characters for line breaks, freely definable custom characters can now be defined as a character for a line break, too. The characters can be defined both as text and as codepoints. A line break can consist of one or more adjacent custom characters. Up to now, there was a similar function with a limited scope for the processing of CSV data ("Character for the End of Line"). The new implementation applies in general. That means, both to the processing of CSV data as well as to the processing of other texts (for example with regards to the line actions). So far, it was not possible to define the end of the line by custom characters for these actions. The separate option for reading and saving CSV data becomes superfluous with this and was eliminated.
• Automatic Detection of Characters for the CSV Import (2021-12-23): Option for the automatic detection of the field separator (for example comma, semicolon or tab), the field delimiter (for example single or double quotation marks) and the line break type for the CSV import. So far, those characters had to be specified explicitly. The explicit specification is still possible in order to force the import in a certain format.
• Selection of Lines for Line Actions in Action Lists (2021-12-20): With the new line actions for action lists SELECT_LINES and DESELECT_LINES, you can select or deselect lines according to certain criteria for their later processing. In addition to the option "All Lines" and the possibility to specify line numbers, the existing line actions receive the further option "Selected Lines". If this option is activated, the corresponding action is assigned for all previously selected lines. With this method, a significantly more flexible selection of lines for processing is possible than before. Initially, the following selectors are available: WITH_LINENUMBERS, WITH_LINENUMBERS_MOD, CONTAINING_TEXT, NOT_CONTAINING_TEXT, MATCHING_TEXT, NOT_MATCHING_TEXT and ALL. More will follow.
• Comments in Action Lists (2021-12-19): With a preceding #, you can now write comments into action lists. Lines that start with a # are not considered as an action in action lists.
• Action Lists (2021-12-17): New possibility to apply 3 different free action lists with freely combinable actions from all areas at the same time.
• Editing of Action Lists (2021-12-15): In addition to the editor for action lists, action lists can now also be edited directly in the main window.
• Multiple Selection of Actions (2021-12-06): With a right-click on the heading of a section, all actions of this section can now be activated or deactivated at once.
• Action Lists for the Sections (2021-11-29): Each section (Text, Lines, CSV and XML) gets its own administration for action lists that only contain actions from the respective section. You can continue to create action lists containing actions from different sections via the section "Action Lists".
• Storage of Action Lists (2021-11-28): Action lists can now be saved as an independent file or within the general settings ("Default List").
• Editing of Action Lists (2021-11-27): Action lists can now be edited both within the list view and as text.
• Transliteration and Transcription (2021-11-23): The rules for the transliteration and transcription can now be edited either in the form of a list or as a text. Before, only text editing was possible.
• Settings (2021-11-17): To reduce the size of the settings files, only those settings are stored, which deviate from the default settings.
• New Actions (2021-11-13): Rotate and Mirror of CSV data.
• Transliteration and Transcription (2021-11-05): The rules for the transliterations and transcriptions can now be viewed and edited either in the new list view or in a text field as before.
• New Options for the Transliteration and Transcription Profiles (2021-11-03): Writing (case-sensitive application or application only in uppercase or lowercase letters).
• New Options for the Transliteration and Transcription Rules (2021-11-03): Position of the replacement in the word (everywhere or only at the front, back or in the middle) and Swap Step (order during processing).
• New Action List Action (2021-09-04): Insert text into fields of CSV data or CSV files (INSERT_IN_CELLS).
• New Action (2021-09-03): Swap Lines (as usual Action and for Action Lists).
• New Action List Actions (2021-09-01): Prepend or append text to CSV cells.
• New Action List Action (2021-08-29): Delete Lines.
• New Action List Actions (2021-08-28): Replace text in inner texts or tag names of XML data or XML files (REPLACE_IN_INNERTEXTS, REPLACE_IN_TAGNAMES).
• New Action List Actions (2021-08-27): Delete text from inner texts or tag names of XML data or XML files (DELETE_IN_INNERTEXTS, DELETE_IN_TAGNAMES).
• New Actions (2021-08-26): Delete text from inner texts, tag names, attribute names or attribute values of XML data or XML files.
• New Keyboard Shortcut (2021-08-26): Shift + CTRL + C (Copy the preview into the clipboard).
• New Actions (2021-08-25): Prepend, append and insert text to or in inner texts, tag names, attribute names or attribute values of XML data or XML files.
• New Actions (2021-08-24): Change writing of attribute names and attribute values of XML data or XML files.
• New Actions (2021-08-23): Replace in attribute names and attribute values of XML data or XML files.
• New Actions (2021-08-14): Change writing of inner texts and tag names of XML data or XML files.
• New Action (2021-08-13): Replace in tag names of XML data or XML files.
• New Action (2021-08-12): Replace in inner texts of XML data or XML files.
• New Actions (2021-08-11): Remove spaces, tabs and other whitespace from the beginning or from the end of inner texts or attribute values of XML data or XML files.
• Synchronous Zoom (2021-08-09): The text fields "Original" and "Preview" can now be zoomed synchronously. This means that if you change the font size of one of the two fields with the mouse, the other field automatically zooms in the same way. This function can be deactivated via the settings "Preview > Editor Settings > Zoom Original and Preview synchronously".
• New Placeholders for the File Size (2021-07-31): With some new placeholders for the file size, it is now possible to automatically specify the file size in a unit fitting to the file size or to explicitly use a desired unit (byte, KB, MB, GB or TB). In addition, it is possible to output the file size without decimal places or to freely determine the number of decimal places used.
• New Placeholders for the File Date (2021-07-29): For the current date and the current time as well as for the date and the time of the file creation, the last file modification and the last file access, many different new placeholder are now available, which enable the date and time to be inserted in different variants. For example, it is possible, to insert the entire date or the entire time in different formats as well as to explicitly insert second, minute, hour, day, month and year with or without leading zeros individually. Before that, only one placeholder with a fixed formatting per date was possible.
• Join / Split Files (2021-07-28): Apply actions before/after the separation / junction of files now in two independent options.
• Change of the User Interface (2021-07-23): Original and preview (old/new file or text) can now be hidden and shown independently of each other. Before, this was only possible in conjunction.
• State Storage (2021-07-21): Storage of the state of the collapsible interface elements if the option "Save Window Size and Window Position" is enabled in the settings.
• Change of the User Interface (2021-07-19): The system for hiding parts of the user interface has been changed. Instead of the X at the top of each area with which the corresponding area could be closed previously, there is now a triangle in the top right corner with which the areas can be folded. This has the advantage that the areas now stay in their place and can be shown again more easily.
• New CSV Action (2021-06-23): Replace fields / set field content according to column and line numbers as usual Action and for Action Lists (REPLACE_CELLS).
• Overwrite filled Fields (2021-06-22): Extension of the CSV function "Replace Fields > Overwrite filled Fields" with the new option "Also if field only contains whitespace" and the possibility to limit the filling of the fields to certain columns and/or lines.
• Fill empty Fields (2021-06-21): Extension of the CSV function "Replace Fields > Fill empty fields" with the new option "Also if field only contains whitespace" and the possibility to limit the filling of the fields to certain columns and/or lines.
• New Placeholder (2021-06-13): The new placeholder %abs0num% stands for the position of the file within the file list with so many leading zeros that the resulting character length corresponds to the character length of the number of files (suitable for the placeholder %abs%).
• New Placeholders (2021-06-09): The placeholders for the numbering of files (%num%) as well as for the numbering within files (%numf% and %numfa%) can now be used with a freely definable number of leading zeros by preceding the desired number of zeros (for example %0num% or %000numf%). Additionally, from now on, for the same placeholders, an initial value and an increase value can also be set.
• Font resizing with mouse wheel (2021-06-08): In all multi-line text fields, the font size can now be increased or decreased with the mouse wheel while holding down the CTRL key.
• Image Export (2021-05-29): New settings options for the export as an image (line spacing as well as borders on the left, on the right, on the top and on the bottom).
• New Placeholders (2021-05-27): New placeholders for the current date and the current time %date%, %time%, %dd.mm.yyyy%, %yyyy-mm-dd%, %hh-mm-ss%, %hh-mm% and %hh:mm:ss% %hh:mm%.
• New Transliteration (2021-05-21): Armenian.
• Encoding Detection (2021-04-04): Improved automatic recognition of text files with the encodings UTF16-LE, UTF16-BE, UTF32-LE and UTF32-BE without byte order mark.
• Reorganization of the Delete Lines Function (2021-03-31): Delete lines after this text / after this line number are now two separate functions.
• New Action (2021-03-30): Delete all lines before this text (under "Delete Lines").
• Wildcard Search (2021-03-29): In addition to the search with regular expressions, the filter for the file name and the file extension now also supports simpler wildcard searches with * (any series of one or more characters or no character) and ? (single character).
• Reorganization of the Delete Lines Action (2021-03-26): The single sub-functions were separated into collapsible areas that can now be activated and deactivated individually. This makes the function clearer and easier to use.
• Remove nonexistent Files (2021-03-21): New option in the pop-up menu of the file list, which can check whether the files in the file list still exist or, for example, have been deleted or moved after being added.
• Row Control of CSV Actions (2021-03-19): In addition to the old possibility of applying CSV actions in certain columns, there are now also options to limit the application to specific or all rows for the following CSV actions: Replace, Delete Text, Trim, Prepend Text, Append Text, Insert Text, Writing and Calculations. This means that the CSV actions can now be controlled precisely also for individual cells.
• New CSV-Option (2021-03-17): "In all Columns" for all suitable CSV Actions.
• Extension of the TextEncoder (2021-03-16): The built-in TextEncoder now also offers the possibility to read texts with a certain encoding (the automatic detection remains the default setting) and to change the line break type (here too, it is optionally possible to specify a line break type for reading instead of the automatic detection). The built-in TextEncoder thus receives similar functions to the stand-alone program of the same name TextEncoder. So far, with the built-in TextEncoder, it was only possible to specify an encoding for storage.
• New Encoding Formats (2021-03-16): Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), Latin-2 (ISO 8859-2), general Windows Codepage, Windows-1250 (Central European), Windows-1251 (Cyrillic), Windows-1252 (Western European) and Windows-1253 (Greek) as further encodings for reading and writing files.
• New Keyboard Shortcuts (2021-03-15): CTRL + F (Open the dialog for searching in files) and CTRL + E (Open the TextEncoder dialog).
• New Options (2021-03-14): "Interpret as Regular Expression" and "Whole line must match the text/regex" for the line actions "Prepend Text", "Append Text" and "Insert Text" (in lines containing text).
• New Options (2021-03-13): "In Lines containing Text" for the actions "Replace in Lines" and "Delete in Lines".
• Size change of text fields (2021-03-11): Multi-line text fields in the action area can now be dynamically resized with the mouse. For that, you can place the mouse below the text field (in the sensitive area an arrow is displayed as a cursor) and pull the field larger or smaller with a pressed mouse button.
• New Option for the Replace Text Action (2021-02-19): With the new options "Each line is a separate Search Text" and "Each line is a separate Replacement", text in the text fields can be interpreted either line-wise or completely (multi-line). In the case of a line interpretation, each line is interpreted as a single independent text, with which multiple replacements can be carried out in a simple manner. Both options are independent of each other, so that, for example, several search texts can aslo be replaced by only one replacement text.
• New Option for the Delete Text Action (2021-02-18): If the new option "Each line is a separate Deletion" is active, each line in the text field is interpreted and deleted as a single independent text, with which multiple deletions can be carried out in a simple manner. If this option is not activated, the text from the text field is deleted as a whole. This means that in this case a text for deletion can go over multiple lines.
• New Options (2021-02-17): "Match Case", "Interpret as Regular Expression" and "Whole line must match the text/regex" for the line action "Insert Text" > "in lines containing text".
• Negative Insertion Positions (2021-02-16): As character position of the action "Insert", now also negative values can be used. In the case of using negative numbers, the insertion position is not counted from the front of the text but from behind. The value -1 corresponds to the end of the text, the value -2 corresponds to the position in front of the last letter and so on.
• Insert Text (2021-02-16): Insert text at a character position of the entire text. So far, only inserting text at a character position within certain lines was possible.
• Reorganization of the Insertion Functions (2021-02-15): The function "Insert" was divided into the new actions "Prepend" (formerly insert at the start), "Append" (formerly insert at the end) and "Insert" (at a character position).
• Reorganization of the Line Actions (2021-02-14): The old action "Line Actions" was divided into the new individual actions "Lines > Sort", "Lines > Line Numbers", "Lines > Line Breaks" and "Lines > Trim". This ensures greater clarity and the possibility to activate the actions individually and independently.
• CSV Column Order (2021-02-03): In the field for specifying the new order, columns can now also be defined for multiple times with which copies of the respective columns can be inserted at the respective positions. In addition, with the new option "Delete columns that are not listed" it can be achieved that only the specified columns are adopted. If this option is not active, columns that have not been specified are kept as the last columns.
• CSV Import and Export (2021-01-31): Differentiation between import and export. For the import format, now other field separators and field delimiters can be used than for the export format. Also the settings for the shortened data set can now be specified for import and export independently.
• CSV Import and Export (2021-01-21): The default delimiter for the import and export of CSV data and CSV files was changed according to the local system settings.
• Search Folders (2021-01-19): Improved dialog control when adding files from multiple folders.
• Multiple selection of Folders (2021-01-14): In the dialog for adding folders and files from folders, with the CTRL key pressed, several folders can now be selected, searched and added at the same time.
• New Placeholders (2020-11-30): With the new placeholders %0num%, %00num%, %000num%, %0000num% and so on you can insert the number of the file with any number of leading zeros.
• New Action (2020-11-27): Delete text only in certain columns / rows from CSV files.
• New Action (2020-11-26): Delete Text only in specific Lines.
• New Options (2020-11-24): "Capitalize Words", "First Letter Uppercase" and "Randomly Mixed" for the CSV action "Writing". Before that, only the options "All letters uppercase" and "All letters lowercase" were possible.
• New Option (2020-11-21): For the actions "Remove spaces, tabs and other whitespace from the beginning and/or the end of lines", in addition to the option "All Lines", now also line numbers can be specified. Before that, the function was only applicable to all lines of a text.
• New Option (2020-11-20): "Whole field content must match the text/regex" for the CSV action "Replace in Fields".
• New Option (2020-11-20): "Whole line must match the text/regex" for the action "Delete Lines".
• New Placeholders (2020-11-19): %filename%, %name% (file name with or without file extension - there was only one placeholder for the file name with file extension before), %abs% (number of files in the list), %drive% (drive of the file), various placeholders for arbitrary folder names in the path of the file.
• New Options for the Application of Placeholders (2020-11-19): "Replace placeholders before processing respectively before applying the actions" and "Replace placeholders after processing respectively after applying the actions".
• Renaming (2020-11-18): "Constants" are now called "Placeholders".
• New Options (2020-11-18): "Match Case" and "Whole line must match text/regex" for the action "Replace Lines".
• New Action (2020-11-17): In addition to the previous action "Replace Lines", there is now also the new action "Replace in Lines" available.
• Display of the character position (2020-11-15): When clicking into the text field of the original text or the preview, up to now, only the current line of the cursor has been displayed under the text field. In addition to the line number, now, also the character position of the cursor within the line is shown. This information can be used directly in actions such as "Insert text at a character position".
• Join / Split Files (2020-11-13): The application of the actions is now optionally possible either before or after the separation / junction of the files. In addition, it is now possible to only include the files that are selected in the file list.
• New Option (2020-11-10): "Remove diacritics from the original text before processing" for the action "Transliteration and Transcription" (for example, ä, á, ã and so on become a).
• On-The-Fly-Conversion (2020-11-07): In order to display the result of the on-the-fly conversion, previously the key combination CTRL + D had to be pressed. Now, it is sufficient to write or to copy a text into the field "Original" in order to see the result in the "Preview" field automatically. With every new key stroke and with every change of the actions, the preview is updated and can be copied into the clipboard to further use the changed text. This enables an uncomplicated processing of texts without the detour via files. The conversion of files is of course still possible without restrictions like before.
• Search in Files (2020-11-06): Display of the total number of hits.
• Separation of Functions (2020-11-05): The old function for removing useless (double) whitespace was divided into the new individual functions "Remove double spaces", "Remove double tabs" and "Remove double line breaks". With this, it is now possible to control the different character types individually.
• HTML Actions (2020-11-04): The old section "HTML Actions" was renamed to "Rewrite" and moved to the "Text" section, since the functions contained there work on the text level and in the meantime many new functions have been added that are not only useful for HTML files. Actions that really work at the level of an HTML or XML structure can be found in the section "XML" by now.
• New Actions (2020-11-03): Delete all Lines before or after a specific text.
• New Options (2020-11-01): Options for searching and replacing "in all columns" and "in all lines" of CSV data or CSV files. Before that, only the explicit specification of certain columns and certain lines was possible.
• New Action (2020-10-31): Counter.
• Reorganization of the Multi-Functions (2020-10-27): The possibility of multiple replacements of text or lines, multiple insertions of text as well as multiple deletions of text has been integrated into the action list function. Action lists are significantly more flexible than the old solution, since any action from any area can be combined in any order, which was not possible with the old system. In addition, the old system became increasingly confusing with the increasing number of actions. In addition, the new system offers the option of integrating other actions that could not be used for multiple times before. As a manager for replacements, you can use the action list editor in the new system.
• Change of the User Interface (2020-10-22): The area with the storage options can now be folded. As a result, more space can be created to display the actions, especially on small screens.
• Trim Functions (2020-10-21): The functions for removing whitespace from the beginning and the end have been expanded, so that the removal at the front (TrimLeft) and at the back (TrimRight) can now be controlled independently. This expansion also affects the functions for trimming text in CSV cells and the options in the functions "Join Files" and "Split Files".
• Number of selected Actions (2020-10-20): The number of actions set is now displayed behind the heading of the associated section (Text, Lines, CSV, XML, Files, Action Lists, Options). This means that you can immediately see where actions are active, even if the corresponding area is collapsed.
• New Option (2020-10-19): New option "Ignore Whitespace / Spaces" for the action "Sort Lines".
• Reorganization of the CSV Functions (2020-10-18): The old action "CSV Editing" was divided into the individual actions "Import Format", "Export Format", "Replace in Fields", "Prepend Text", "Append Text", "Insert Text", "Writing", "Calculations" and "Delete Columns" within the new section "CSV". This means that the old window for CSV editing is history and the CSV actions are now following the usual structure of the TextConverter and can be activated individually and independently. The multiple and combined use of CSV actions can be implemented via action lists.
• Reorganization of the Actions (2020-10-17): The actions are now divided into the sections Text, Lines, CSV, XML and Files. Each of these sections can be collapsed or opened to be able to display, configure and select the actions from it. This restructuring was necessary due to the steadily increasing number of actions to maintain clarity.
• Reorganization of the Settings (2020-10-17): There is now a central window for the settings. Old settings that could be configured via single windows or via options in the menu are now integrated into this central settings management.
• Mark Files containing Text (2020-09-01): From the "Find Text in Files" window, the files found can now be marked directly in the file list. This makes it possible to process only this selection of files.
• New Action List Actions (2020-04-22): Prepend or append text (PREPEND, APPEND).
• Action Lists (2020-04-21): New possibility of combining any number of actions in any order as an action list in order to apply them in common.
• New Actions (2020-04-20): Actions for removing elements and attributes from XML files.
• Line Numbers (2020-01-07): Freely selectable interval of the written line numbers. Before, only a labeling of each line or each fifth line was possible.
• Export and Import of the File List (2019-07-31): The file list can now be exported as file. The exported file can be imported in this or other programs again.
• Custom Columns (2019-07-28): Custom columns can now be defined in the file lists of the main window and the dialog for searching in files (via right-click or the settings menu).
• Text Rewriting (2019-04-06): New functions "Separate CamelCase", "Replace Diacritics", "Remove Diacritics", "URL-Encode" and "URL-Decode" to rewrite text.
• Column Width (2018-04-12): The width of the columns of the file list can now be saved.
• Saving of window position and window size (2018-02-10): Position and size of the program window can now be saved in the startup settings and setting profiles.
• High-DPI-Improvements (2017-12-06): Improvements of the graphical user interface and the icons for high dpi settings.
• Multiple Replacements (2017-10-22): Larger list, new "Replace"-button for easier editing of replacements in the list.
• CSV-Editing (2017-04-20): Multiple columns to be deleted can now also be specified as range (for example 2-10).
• Search and Replace Manager (2017-03-21): The manager for administrating replacements now also supports multi-line replacements.
• File Associations (2016-02-05): Settings (File Extension TCS, Text Converter Settings) can now be linked with the program directly out of the application - Info.
• New Function (2015-10-15): Added option "Only save in case of a change".
• New Functions (2015-08-28): Delete all lines from a specific line on, delete all lines containing more or less characters than specified, delete all double lines from file.
• Extension of CSV Editing (2015-06-10): The CSV editing function now also support field delimiter characters (for example quoted fields in double quotes). Beyond reading such CSV sources, it is now also possible to determine whether and when field delimiters should be used when saving the CSV file.
• Extension of CSV Editing (2015-03-18): Search and Replace cell contents using regular expressions, Search and Replace with constants, optional case-insensive Search and Replace, fill empty cells, overwrite cells if they are not empty, delete columns.
• Improvement (2015-02-01): Improvements for multi screens.
• Improvement (2014-07-13): Improvements for high resolution/high DPI screens.
• Extension (2013-01-27): Adding the line actions "TrimLeft" and "TrimRight" as well as the function "First character uppercase in each line".
• Extension (2012-10-13): Extension of the CSV-Editing to a function to read shortened data sets (if there is no value in a field, the value from the line before will be taken)
• Extension (2012-10-07): Expansion of the Insert-Function: Insertion at a position, insertion in lines containing a given text.
• Extension (2012-08-30): Expansion of the action to replace constants by adding more parameters and options.
• New Function (2012-08-11): Introduction of the new version Text Converter Pro CSV to edit single columns of CSV files.
• Extension (2012-07-05): New parameters available in the version Text Converter Pro CL.
• Extension (2012-06-13): You can now split files also at the end or the beginning of the line, the search pattern is in.
• New Function (2012-06-11): In the version Text Conveter Pro CL, it is now possible to remote control the Text Converter automatically via command line or batch script and pass parameters, settings, folders and files.
• New Option (2012-06-10): New option "Show File" in the preview window.
• Improvements (2012-04-14): Improvement of the performance of some functions, improvement of the search-in-files function.
• Improvement of existing functions (2012-04-14): The Function "Delete Lines" was improved. You can now delete or keep lines containg one or more specified text fragments. Also the deletion of empty lines or lines containing only white space is now included.
• Extension (2012-02-17): Extension of the parameters that can be used in file names. With %firstchars% you can now use the first characters of a file as a file name.
• Improvement of existing functions (2012-01-10): Improvement of the user experience during user inputs in different input boxes. Bug fix for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• New Function (2011-07-10): Up to now, only normal characters could be replaced with their named entities. Now, it is also possible to replace named entities with their normal characters. In addition, characters used in HTML can be replaced or not separately.
• Improvement of existing Functions (2011-07-10): The function to make a text from an HTML document was improved.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2011-07-10): Up to now, in the function "Replace Lines" only line numbers could be used to identify a line. Now, also containing text or containing regular expressions are supported.
• New Function (2011-07-10): The function "Delete Lines > Delete Lines containing this text" was added. This function makes it possible to delete all lines containing an arbitrary string or regular expression.
• New Function (2011-03-27): Now the list of files can be saved and loaded. So you can go on working on a group of files later easily.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2011-03-21): Files can now be set to the status "Marked". After that, you can, for example, apply changes only to the marked files. The status can be set manually or automatically because of the content or file name of the file. So, you are now able to make a selection of files within your file list.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2011-03-21): Under some input boxes like the search and replace input, we have added a small button with a plus sign on it. With this button, you can expand the box to type in large amounts of texts easily.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2011-03-01): The action "Search and Replace" was expanded with a manager for replacements. This manager can be called from the replace action by using the button "Manager". In the manager, you can save, load and work on several lists of replacements. So, now it is easier to make lots of different replacements.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2011-01-10): The Unicode file format of the text file is now additional changeable in the actions, so that you can directly see and change the coding.
• New Function (2011-01-10): A new function makes it possible to change only the Unicode file format without changing and converting the text file. The function can be found in the new action for the file format. So, now changing only the file format is quicker and more comfortable than before.
• New Function (2010-11-13): Implementing of the On The Fly Conversion. With this method it is possible to change some lines without opening a file.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2010-11-10): Expansion of Line Actions. In addition, the lines can now also be sorted from a position or an arbitrary text in the lines.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2010-11-09): Expansion of the function "New Line" to be able to only change the Line Break if the new line break differs from the old one.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2010-11-03): The TextConverter can now also deal with UTF-8 files without Byte Order Mark. The files can be read correctly and you can anymore decide whether UTF-8 files should be saved with or without BOM.
• New Function (2010-11-03): The function "New Line" was added to the TextConverter. Now it is possible to work on files with different line break characters from different operating systems and it is possible to change the character used for a new line in files. Read more about this issue in the section New Line.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2010-10-14): The saving options now comes with the function "Delete Original Files". With this option it is possible to delete the original files after creating the new files.
• New Function (2010-10-14): With the new column "Status" in the file list, you will now be able to check whether the files in your list are new or changed or not changed in the last conversion.
• Expansion of existing Functions (2010-08-13): Expansion of the function "Insert" to insertments additionally at the begin and end of each line of the text.

Note: Minor changes, such as updating an existing program translation or fixing a bug, are typically not included in this list. Therefore, if you find a newer version of the program in the download area than the most recent date in this list, we have typically made such a change to the program.