Excel can do this - read in fixed length stuff and save it out then as a csv file, but perhaps you're looking at a no cost solution. I'm sure BBedit can do this, but there are others more capable of answering that.
Peter On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 12:21 PM 'desertrat' via BBEdit Talk < [email protected]> wrote: > There was (back in the Ancient Times..like MacOS 7 or 8) a marvelous > little Mac utility called 'Columnbo' which let you break arbitrary text > files into tab-delimited by specifying the character position to insert a > tab (like position 65. 90, and 125 in a line of text get tabs inserted so > you can parse the text as a tab-delimited file.) It was invaluable in > dealing with columnar-looking text data. > > Is there any way to do this in BBEdit? Alternatively does anyone know of a > modern replacement for Columnbo ? > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/6c082a84-9763-49ca-b46f-6321f31e3d41n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/6c082a84-9763-49ca-b46f-6321f31e3d41n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Kaufman [email protected] United States of America ------------------------------------------------------------- -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/CAHrvKtz6b%3D4ocX4wAN595yyso02vxL98o6AgGQQJm86DnLV64g%40mail.gmail.com.
