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In a text file with city and state names, there may be some values like "Albany, NY". Do remember that the value between the assigned delimiter can have another delimiter character, but it needs a quotation mark (") or an apostrophe (').Ĭonfusing? Not so much.

Any value that follows the delimiter and precedes the next occurrence of the delimiter is imported as one value. This button performs the conversion from character delimited text to fixed column according to the settings described above.įor this example, we are going to use the following configuration, which we get after clicking Scan to determine the field widths for each field.The Text Delimiter keeps each value separate from the next. Of course, you can manually enter or modify field widths if you need to. If there are more fields than entries, the last entry will be used as the field width for the remaining fields. Click the Scan button to have UltraEdit automatically scan the file to determine the field widths and set them here. This is a list of comma separated field widths used for the conversion. In all other cases, a single character should be entered. For tab characters, enter ^t into this field. Typically this is a comma ( ,), pipe ( |), or tab. This specifies the delimiter character between fields, i.e., the field boundaries. If checked, any separator character that exists between double quotes will be ignored as a field separator and treated as a regular character. If checked, any separator character that exists between single quotes will be ignored as a field separator and treated as a regular character. If it is checked, the delimiter character for the fields won’t be removed. If this isn’t checked, UltraEdit will remove the delimiter between each field. This can save time if you’re working with a huge CSV file. This instructs the editor to search just the first line of the file for the field widths. After calculating these values, you’ll see them appear as comma separated numbers in the “Field widths” entry box near the bottom of the dialog. A brief explanation of each option follows:Ĭlick this to have UltraEdit scan the file (or first line) and determine the minimum widths required for each field. This will open the “Convert to Fixed Columns” dialog where you can set options for the conversion.