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Changes from Version 1.2 to 1.3


Added block command to mark blocks of records.

Added stat command to produce CSV file record/field counts.

Improved error reporting for commands using the expression language.

Many bug fixes.


Changes from Version 1.1 to 1.2


Command abbreviations are now supported.

Added check command to do CSV syntactic validation.

The odbc_get command now has a -dir option to simplify using the ODBC text driver.

The map command now supports dynamically mapping to other fields in the input record.

Added match() function to match regular expressions to eval command.

Added -r flag to eval command to allow field replacement as well as appending.

The find and remove commands now support field testing via eval-style expressions.

The exclude command now supports excluding fields based on an eval-style expression.

The -si flag in the find and remove commands now works correctly.



Changes from Version 1.0 to 1.1


The find and remove commands now support non-regular expression strings.

Added diff command for comparing CSV files.

Added file_merge command for merging sorted files.

The split_char command now supports splitting on character type transitions.

Added rmnew command to remove newlines inside CSV fields.

Help now implemented using HelpNDoc - looks nicer & spelling mistakes all (?) fixed.

       

Changes from Version 0.97 to 1.0


Added the from_xml command to convert XML data to CSV. This is a much improved facility over the original read_xml command, which was removed a while back.  

Added ability to search for ranges and lengths with the find and remove commands.  

Commands like order now support field indexes specified as ranges.  

Fixed problem with trailing empty fields being ignored.  

Added -nc flag to order command to allow skipping of non-existent input fields  

Added new functions to eval command.  

Added -d flag to allow decremented numbers for sequence command.  

Added -fc flag to find and remove commands to allow search on CSV field counts.  

The put command can now output field counts.  


Older change log entries removed for clarity.


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