Look inside file

This software displays a small part of a (very) big file. It has been designed to display the biggest files on the oldest computer. Indeed, it loads only one character at a time in memory. It is very fast to display the beginning of a file because it starts from the beginning, it could be slow to reach a very high line number but this is the price for a very low memory consumption. This software is especially useful before resizing a big table with Resize table.

To explore a table, Look inside table gives a nicer display.

Manual :

1- if not already installed, install Perl free programming language.

2- download the program

3- Use this syntax in a GNU linux / Unix terminal type : perl look_inside_file-0-06.pl path_to_your_file

4- Then enter x1,y1 and x2,y2

Enjoy ;)

Known issues : when you look inside a table with blank cells or if the cells do not have the same number of characters inside, you will see some misalignments. This is normal since the software display a fix number of characters.

Caution : The end of line used by this software is Unix like : \n. It has been tested only with Unix like files (end of line \n), it should work with windows files (end of line \r\n) and it should not work with Apple files (end of line \r). File conversion is possible with search replace word (see convert Mac or Win file into Unix).