Ars Technica

Removing first N characters from each line in a text file, or * in search/replace

My wife has quite the challenge. To take subtitle files from an anime, and remove the time codes so as to make a screenplay for a fan dub group. She's on episode 5 of 20 something but I want to save ...
Ars Technica

VB.NET: Overwriting a certain line in a text file

I have a little text file that I'm using for a few little preferences (last folder used, etc) for an app I'm trying to put together.<BR><BR>I'm able to grab the values I want from each line, but when ...
Network World

Using the Linux fold command to make text more readable

The Linux fold takes lines of text and breaks them into chunks based on the arguments that you provide. With no arguments, fold will break lines at 80 characters. The first example below uses a single ...
TechRepublic

Read and write text files with Visual Basic .NET

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...
Computerworld

Unix Tip: Managing line termination differences in text files

Most every Unix sysadmin has run smack into line ending incompatibilities from time to time. The most common problem is the appearance of ^M characters at the ends of lines in text files that were ...