XML has become the standard technology in information exchange, but many applications still use more primitive ways to import and export data. One such technique is based on text files containing ...

Computer programmers often use parsing programs to convert text into formats that other applications can use. Parsers split items in a text string into separate fields. If, for example, you have a ...

As the subject says, what would you consider to be the best programming language, which is also fairly easy to learn, to parse text files? I need to be able to clean out header and footer ...

The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

I have a program currently written in Perl that checks the values of about 2gb worth of tab-delimited text files (files vary in size from about 10mb to 500mb). Every value of every file is checked ...