Flat File Extractor
ffe is a flat file extractor. It can be used for reading different flat file structures and displaying them in different formats. ffe can read fixed length and separated text files and fixed length binary files. It is a command line tool developed under GNU/Linux. The main areas of use are extracting particular fields or records from a flat file, converting data from one format to an other, e.g. from CSV to fixed length, verifying a flat file structure, as a testing tool for flat file development, and displaying flat file content in human readable form.
| Tags | Text Processing Filters Text Editors |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 10 Apr 2011 11:06
Release Notes: Input preprocessing was implemented.
- 29 Sep 2010 14:01
Release Notes: The record keyword "level" and the printing keywords "group-header", "group-trailer", "element-header", and "element-trailer have been implemented. These can be used to print flat file contents in a structured format (e.g. multilevel XML). The record keyword "record-length" has been implemented. This can be used to ignore extra fields that are not defined for a record.
- 25 Mar 2010 14:28
Release Notes: Having the same field in several expressions (using the -e,--expression option) works now. Earlier, only the last expression in the command line was used. The -X,--casecmp option was implemented.
- 02 Nov 2009 15:15
Release Notes: The new keyword "output-file" was implemented for printing to different output files.
- 11 Sep 2008 09:20
Release Notes: Records can now be identified using regular expressions using the new keyword "rid". The -l/--loose option does not cause the program to abort when an invalid block is found from binary input. Instead of aborting, the next valid block is searched from the input stream.
tjsa
02 Mar 2006 07:44
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