Editor: PSTextMerge is the new name for the program formerly known as TDF Czar.This program merges lists of data into text templates to Create fully populated text files. The output files can be Web pages, XML files, RSS Feeds or any other varieties of text files. The input data can be obtained from a tab-delimited data file, or directly from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You can record and easily Play back recorded scripts, making it easy to re-generate your output text files when your data changes. Tab-delimited files can be easily exported from most spreadsheets, databases, address book, and many other programs.
PSTextMerge can also perform other operations with tabular data, extracting and merging data from multiple bookmarks files, address books, and other formats.
PSTextMerge can perform all of the following functions with lists of data.
* Input — Read a file in and prepare for further Processing, optionally converting or cleaning up the data. In addition to reading tab-delimited data, PSTextMerge can parse HTML (most notably bookmark files), XML, plus read file directories and Excel spreadsheets.
* View — View the input data in a tabular format.
* Sort — Arrange the records in the file based on any combination of key fields. Once sorted, records with duplicate keys can be intelligently combined, minimizing or eliminating data loss.
* Filter — Show only selected records, based on one or more selection criteria.
* Template — Create an output text file (such as an HTML file) by merging the tab-delimited data with a template file. One or more Web pages can be created from a single data source.
* Output — Write the processed data back out to a new tab-delimited text disk file.
* Script — Record and playback sequences of any of the above actions.
