![]() For an app that was nearly purchased on a whim, it has proven to be invaluable and is at the fore of my app toolbox.ġ,055,701 Ads blocked and 269,762 Trackers blocked for 61.64 GB saved, since June 4, 2020. If there is a pattern to the text, TextSoap can either clean it up, reformat it, or extract the vital pieces. If I had to reformat and parse text for a living, the time saving would almost be beyond measure. But even with these simple jobs, I save big chunks of time and tons of frustration. There are dozen of these types of tasks I handle each week with TextSoap. If I didn’t have TextSoap, I would have abandoned the project. All that information is now in SnippetsLab where they can be used properly and exported a usable format if needed. Moving everything around by hand would have taken at least a day and driven me to the brink. Then using several RegEx search and replace blocks chained together, it was reformatted and parsed with TextSoap so it could actually be used. Using the Concatenate commands in Calc, I put the text together in a way that was useful. For reasons that send me into a rage, each cell in the row was a piece of information about how the query worked, what it was used for and other instructions. TextSoap was also the tool I used when I needed to extract and reformat queries that were stored in Excel. There is no point in me repeatedly pressing the delete key, then the arrows keys, then dash a dozen keys when I can have the computer do it. Now I just press a key and the work is done. It’s minor but doing that a dozen times a day is so tedious. I have a TextSoap cleaner that removes all the Returns, does a small bit of RegEx to add a separator between ticket number and title. That’s easily copied, but when pasted, it comes across with Returns I don’t want. When viewing a ticket, I want the number and the title. It may seem trivial, but I’ve already used it 800+ times. There is another cleaner I have that works with Jira. It’s an easy way to get text ready for Postman, add opening and closing braces, or open and close tags. I use that to Prefix a name with a Mac Volume name or something like The same can be done for HTML or XML tags. The Prefix and Suffix cleaners are perfect for building strings. Getting the text in the proper format takes a mere second. These are usually product SKUs or Customer IDs that I need to find. This can be used used for the WITHIN clause. The same could be done for logs like Papertrail and Rollbar.Īs mentioned, I can convert a long line of numbers such as 1,2,3,4 into a column of numbers to be used in SQL such as (‘1′,’2′,’3′,’4’). A file of 10,000 lines is reduced to a handful in the blink of an eye. Or all the lines with “Missing.” And of course, “Error.” These lines are extracted so I only have the text I’m interested in. For example, show me all the lines with the word, “Minute” in them. After a run in Katalon Studio, I parse the Execution Log looking for errors or other keywords. If there’s a ton of yellow on the screen, time for some serious editing.Īnother common usage is the Extract Text. It converts these to uppercase, changes the font to red, and the background to yellow. ![]() I also have a Common Words formatter that goes through my text looking for overused words. Instead of going line by line, I press the key and the article is instantly reformatted. Scrivener doesn’t need them, but WordPress does. ![]() For each blog article, I use the formatter to add an extra RETURN between paragraphs. With the Search/Replace engine it’s a matter of using ‘\n’, ‘\t’,’\s’ where needed.Īt this point, I have several hotkeys set up to directly call formatters. This is so I can take something out of LibreOffice and drop it in Valentina Studio. This is done to convert a CSV list to a column and vice-versa. One of my most common tasks is to remove or add, TAB, Space, Enter, or CRLF. Some of the more advanced cleaners include I’ve used are: TextSoap comes with a dozen cleaners and formatters built in. TextSoap can be called from it’s own menu bar applet, from a floating panel, or from other tools like Popclip. So, when working in Valentina Studio, the text can be reformatted without leaving the app. Of course, the power comes from the built in cleaners, RegEx powered Search and Replace feature, as well as chaining together dozens of cleaners to transform text.Īnd those cleaners can be used within other applications, not just within TextSoap itself. On it’s own, TextSoap is a great TXT and RFT editor, with all the standard features you would expect. It’s now a text editor I use almost every day to clean up and reformat text. TextSoap is a tool I bought on a BundleHunt sale thinking it might come in handy one day. ![]()
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