CSVFileView v2.

00
Copyright (c) 2011 - 2014 Nir Sofer
Web site: http://www.nirsoft.net

Description
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CSVFileView is a simple CSV file viewer/converter utility that allows you
to easily view the content of CSV or tab-delimited file created by
NirSoft utilities or by any other software, in a simple table viewer. You
can sort the lines according to one of the fields, remove unwanted fields
and change their order, and then save the result back into CSV file,
tab-delimited file, XML file, or HTML report.

Known Limitations
=================
* CSVFileView cannot load extremely large csv files.

Versions History
================
* Version 2.00:
o Added new file type in 'Save Selected Items' option: Custom
Delimited File. You can set the desired delimiter and quote
characters of this file type using 'Custom Delimited File Settings'
(Ctrl+F9)
o Added 'Always On Top' option.
* Version 1.96:
o Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary
sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column
header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when
clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you
should not hold down the Shift key.
* Version 1.95:
o Fixed to find the correct item when typing the string you want to
search into the main List View. (This feature stopped working on
version 1.85)
* Version 1.93:
o Added 'Keep Columns Size/Order on Refresh' option.
* Version 1.92:
o Added 'Clear Recent Files List' option.
* Version 1.91:
o Added /cfg command-line option, which instructs CSVFileView to

use a config file in another location instead if the default config

file, for example:
CSVFileView.exe /cfg "%AppData%\CSVFileView.cfg"
* Version 1.90:
o Added 'Copy Sorted Column Data' option, which copies to the
clipboard the text of all selected items, but only the column that is
currently sorted.
o Added 'Select All' and 'Deselect All' options in the 'Choose
Columns' window.
o CSVFileView now detects the date/time of Apache Web server log
(For example: 29/Jul/2013:10:38:57 -0400)
o Added option to specify space character ( /s ) as delimiter in
the 'Advanced Open' window.
* Version 1.87:
o Added 'Original File Order - Descending' and 'First Column Descending' to the 'After Loading File - Sort By' option.
* Version 1.86:
o While loading large files, CSVFileView now displays progress
information in the status bar.
* Version 1.85:
o CSVFileView now loads large files much faster and with less
memory usage ( /FastMode command-line option is not needed anymore.
If from some reason you want to run it in the previous mode, you can
execute CSVFileView with /NoFastMode command-line option).
* Version 1.82:
o Fixed bug: When 'Auto Refresh' option was turned on, trying to
load a large csv file caused CSVFileView to hang and to consume
extreme amount of memory.
* Version 1.81:
o Added 'Beep On New Line' option. (Works only on partial refresh)
* Version 1.80:
o When selecting a single line, the line number in the original
file is now displayed in the status bar (Be aware that empty lines
are not counted by CSVFileView)
o Added option to display the csv lines with different font
(Options -> Select Another Font).
* Version 1.76:
o Added 'Scroll To Bottom On New Line' option. If this option is
turned on, a parial refresh is made, and new lines were added since
the last refresh, then the List-View is scrolled to the bottom in
order to show you the added new lines.
* Version 1.75:
o Added 'Partial Refresh' option (Ctrl+F5), which makes a smooth
refresh, without reloading the entire table. However, Partial Refresh
will not work properly if you add/remove columns or change their
position.
o Added 'Auto Refresh Mode' which allows you to choose how to
refresh when the 'Auto Refresh' option is turned on - Partial Refresh
or Full refresh.
* Version 1.71:

o Fixed bug: CSVFileView crashed when opening a file with large

amount of columns.
* Version 1.70:
o The properties window now supports multiple pages, for handling
files with large amount of columns.
* Version 1.67:
o Fixed bug: When opening a file with /load command-line option,
CSVFileView sorted the list by the first column, even if the 'Sort by
original file order' option was selected.
* Version 1.66:
o Added 'Load only from line number...' option (In 'Advanced Open'
window)
o Fixed issue: The properties and the other windows opened in the
wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
* Version 1.65:
o Added option to load last xx lines or first xx lines from the
file. (In 'Advanced Open' window)
o Fixed issue: If you open a file with 'Advanced Open' window and
then do a refresh (F5) CSVFileView now loads the file with the last
'Advanced Open' settings. In previous versions, it opened the file
with the default settings.
* Version 1.60:
o Added 'Open Text In Clipboard' option (Ctrl+F7), which allows you
to open csv/tab-delimited text that you copied to the clipboard.
o You can also specify 'Clipboard:' as a filename in the 'Advanced
Open' window or from command-line (/Load Clipboard:) , in order to
grab the csv/tab-delimited text from the clipboard.
o The 'Automatic Date Sorting' feature now also works with
combination of date and time, for example: 22/03/2011 21:34:25
* Version 1.55:
o Added 'After Loading File - Sort By' option, which allows you to
choose how to sort the file after loading it into CSVFileView - by
original file order or by the first column.
o Added 'Automatic Column Size' option, which allows you to choose
how to set the columns size after loading a file - Fixed Size
(Default), By Column Values Only, or By Column Values+Headers.
o You can now load a file from stdin, by specifying stdin: as a
filename, for example:
CSVFileView.exe /Load stdin: < c:\temp\myfile.csv
* Version 1.51:
o Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to
automatically resize the columns according to the row values and
column headers.
* Version 1.50:
o Added 'Open Recent File' menu (Under the File menu), which allows
you to easily open the last 10 csv files that you have previously
opened.
* Version 1.45:
o Added new mode that allows you to load large .csv files much
faster and with less memory usage. This mode is currently in Beta, so
in order to activate it, you have to run CSVFileView with /FastMode

command-line option:
CSVFileView.exe /FastMode
If you use CSVFileView for loading large files, it's highly
recommended that you try this mode and report about any bug/problem
you discover.
* Version 1.40:
o Added 'Hide Selected Lines' option (Ctrl+H)
* Version 1.35:
o Added 'Advanced Open' option, which allows you to specify the
delimiter and quotes characters of the file you want to load. This
option is useful for files that their delimiter character is not
detected correctly by CSVFileView.
* Version 1.30:
o Added 'Allow MultiLine Fields' option. When it's turned on,
CSVFileView will be able to load csv file containing field values
with multiple lines.
o Added option to stop the loading process of csv file, by clicking
the 'Stop' menu item, or by pressing the Esc key.
* Version 1.25:
o Added 'Auto Refresh' option. When it's turned on, CSVFileView
automatically reloads the file when a change in the size/modified
time of the file is detected.
o Added 'Descending Sort By Original Order' option (Ctrl+F8)
o When using the refresh option (F5), the lines are now sorted
according to the last sorting you chose (by clicking the column
headers).
* Version 1.20:
o Added 'Unicode/Ascii Default Open Mode' option, which instructs
CSVFileView how to open a file without a Unicode signature (byte
order mark) - as Ascii (the default), as Unicode, or as UTF8.
* Version 1.15:
o Added 'Automatic Date Sorting' option. Be aware that date sorting
doesn't work with all date formats.
* Version 1.12:
o Fixed the problem with negative numbers sorting.
* Version 1.11:
o Fixed bug: CSVFileView didn't display all columns if the first
line had one or more empty fields.
* Version 1.10:
o Added /load command-line option, which allows you to specify the
file to open from command-line.
o Added support for save command-line options (/shtml , /sxml, and
so on), which can be used together with /load command-line option for
converting the csv file into xml/html/tab-delimited file.
o Added 'Explorer Context Menu' option. When this option is
enabled, 'Open With CSVFileView' menu item is added when you right
click on a text file.
o Automatic delimiter detection - When CSVFileView cannot find a
comma or tab character in the first line, it tries to automatically
detect the right delimiter character and parse the file with it.
o Added support for loading UTF8 files.

* Version 1.00 - First release.

Using CSVFileView
=================
CSVFileView doesn't require any installation process or additional dll
files. In order to start using it, simply run the executable file CSVFileView.exe
After running CSVFileView, you can open the desired CSV/Tab-Delimited
file by using the 'Open CSV\Tab-Delimited File' option (Ctrl+O) or by
dragging the file from Explorer into the main window of CSVFileView.
If the first line of the CSV/Tab-Delimited file doesn't contain the
column names, you should turn off the 'First Line Contains Column Names'
option (Under the Options menu) before opening the file.
After opening the desired file, you can do the following actions:
* Sort the lines by one of the fields, simply by clicking the right
column header. If the column values are numeric, CSVFileView
automatically makes a numeric sorting instead of string sorting.
* Remove one or more columns or change their position by using the
'Choose Columns' window (F7). You can also change the position of the
columns by dragging the column headers into another position.
* Select one or more lines, or select all lines (Ctrl+A), and then
saving them into csv, comma-delimited, XML, or HTML file, by using the
'Save Selected Items' option (Ctrl+S). You can also press Ctrl+C to
copy the selected lines into the clipboard, and then paste them into
Excel.

More Options
============
* Unicode/Ascii Save Mode: By default, CSVFileView saves all files in
Unicode, except of csv file, which is saved as Ascii. The reason for
saving csv files as Ascii is... Microsoft Excel. That's because
Microsoft Excel doesn't open properly csv files that are saved as
Unicode.
You can change the default behavior, by going to Options ->
Unicode/Ascii Save Mode, and then choosing the desired save mode Ascii or Unicode.
* Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File: When this option is turned
on, and you export the selected lines into csv/tab-delimited file, the
first added line contains the column/field names.
* First Line Contains Column Names: When this option is turned on,
CSVFileView uses the first line of the opened csv/tab-delimited file as
the column names list.
* Automatic Numeric Sorting: When this option is turned on, CSVFileView
automatically uses numeric sorting when numeric values are detected.

Opening Web Server Log File

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With CSVFileView, you can also open a log file of Apache or other Web

server that generates a log file in the same format. In order to do that,
you should turn off the 'First Line Contains Column Names' option, open
the 'Advanced Open' window (Ctrl+Shirt+O), type \s (space character) in
the delimiter field, and "[] in the quotes field. Choose the log file to
open and then press Ok.

Command-Line Options
====================

/load <Filename>
Start CSVFileView with the specified csv/tab-delimited file.
/cfg <Filename>
Start CSVFileView with the specified configuration file. For example:
CSVFileView.exe /cfg "c:\config\csv.cfg"
CSVFileView.exe /cfg "%AppData%\CSVFileView.cfg"
/stext <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into a regular text file.
/stab <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into a tab-delimited text file.
/scomma <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into a comma-delimited text file
(csv).
/stabular <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into HTML file (Horizontal).
/sverhtml <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into HTML file (Vertical).
/sxml <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into XML file.
/scustom <Filename>
Save the loaded csv/tab-delimited file into a custom delimited text file.

Translating CSVFileView to other languages

==========================================
In order to translate CSVFileView to other language, follow the
instructions below:
1. Run CSVFileView with /savelangfile parameter:
CSVFileView.exe /savelangfile
A file named CSVFileView_lng.ini will be created in the folder of
CSVFileView utility.
2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text
editor.
3. Translate all string entries to the desired language. Optionally,

you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site.
(TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information,
it'll be used in the 'About' window.
4. After you finish the translation, Run CSVFileView, and all
translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run CSVFileView without the translation, simply rename
the language file, or move it to another folder.

License
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This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely
distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any
other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this and you don't
sell it or distribute it as a part of commercial product. If you
distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution
package, without any modification !

Disclaimer
==========
The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed
or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not
be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages
due to loss of data or any other reason.

Feedback
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If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my
utility, you can send a message to nirsofer@yahoo.com