The latest TextPipe Pro Beta can be downloaded from:
http://www.datamystic.com/textpipeprobeta.exe
and for customers, from the pre-release link in the secure area.

We're inviting all users to try it out, but particularly those using
- Mainframe copybooks
- Unicode data
- Conversions between language encodings
- Complex search/replace expressions with a need for more than 36
variables.

Please send us your feedback!


What's New in TextPipe v7.7.5
=============================

* The user is now given the option to manually start Word or Excel
if they are
not running when TextPipe needs them (with the Convert Word/Excel
Document to
Text filters).
* Pattern matches can now name captured variables for use in the
replacement
text e.g. searching for (?P<dollars>\d+) would then allow the macro
@dollars
to be used in the replacement, and also as a global anywhere else in
the
filter list.
* Far more complex patterns can be processed, with support for up to
99
captured variables, from $1-$99.
* Mainframe Copybook Wizard now allows underscores (_) and single
quotes (') in
field names in 'XXX_XXXX 4 AN 1-4'-type copybooks.
Wizard now removes the content of fields called FILLER* .
Wizard now copes with repeated single-fields, as well as GROUPED
OCCURS.
EBCDIC packed decimal fields can now have either a leading sign,
trailing
sign or no sign.
New option to trim leading spaces and zeroes from fields.
New option to only expand numeric fields - Alpha fields are left
unchanged.
This is useful when the target application can accept EBCDIC data
but can't
handle packed decimals.
Wizard can now cope with removing line numbers and commented
copybook lines
(those with a '* ' in column 7).
Wizard can now cope with field definitions spread over multiple
lines.
Wizard now remembers settings betting uses in a single session.
* EasyPatterns now produce optimized perl regex output. Added
EasyPattern
EBCDIC('') for matching EBCDIC values. Fixed parsing error with ASCII
()
function.
* Hex displays now all use '.' to replace space.
Query replace window now shows hex offsets for Hex Dump display.
* New File Shred filter to completely overwrite file contents.
* Split filter now can split at a pattern.
New Split Filter option to avoid overloading directories. When more
than
10000 files are created, TextPipe starts a new folder.
* Filter list tree now auto-scrolls.
Filter list tree now allows mass enable/disable of filters with
select and
right-click.
* New Filters to Add File Headers/Footers. These filters do not
output anything
when a restriction changes, so they only output once per file.
* Now can drag and drop filters between filter lists in different
windows.
* Filters Add Header/Footer/Left Margin/Right Margin now always
check for
@macros embedded in the text, regardless of whether the text comes
from the
memo or an external file.
* Fixed bug with search/replaces where an internal conversion from
ansi to
Unicode and back could result in high-ansi characters not being
mapped
correctly back to their original characters. In particular, the ansi
(tm)
symbol mapped back to TWO characters.




Regards,

Simon Carter, DataMystic Melbourne, Australia
www.datamystic.com +61.3.9886.6896 (GMT+10 hours)
TextPipe: Text Conversion, Transformation, Cleansing and Extraction
Workbench
PCMAG - "The ultimate text conversion and manipulation tool"
Online Demo: www.datamystic.com/tpdemo