Saturday, May 20, 2006

Large Text File Viewer 4.1

SwiftGear.com - Large Text File Viewer 4.1 - Features

  • "Have you ever felt frustrated when you just want to look at the content of a large text file but it takes forever for Notepad or Word to open it?
  • This program was designed for viewing large (>1GB) text files.
  • It uses little memory and is able to open a gigabyte file instantly.
  • Background file indexing makes browsing even faster.
  • It allows the user to perform high-speed complex text search by means of plain text or regular expression. The regular expression syntax is slightly different from the standard ones. Please click here for details.
  • The regular expressions for finding the following items have been provided as preset for the convenience of the users:
    • quoted string
    • hexadecimal integer
    • floating-point number
    • date of any format
    • time of any format
    • domestic phone number (US & Canada)
    • social security number
    • IP address
    • email address
    • http address
    • ftp address
  • The program opens and displays both ANSI and Unicode text files.
  • ...
  • No additional DLL (such as MFC or VB) is required.
  • No installation is needed.
  • The executable is only 552KB!

  • ..."
This utility looks like it might be pretty useful.

In my day life, I run across some very large text files, and like the first bullet says, it’s frustrating waiting for Notepad to open them.

Adding this to my utility belt and thumb drive...

(via The Portable Freeware Collection - Large Text File Viewer V4.1)

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