Flat File Extractor Changelog

What's new in Flat File Extractor 0.3.4

Mar 28, 2014
  • Zombie processes are now properly reaped using SIG_IGN
  • New printing directive %C

New in Flat File Extractor 0.3.3 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Output option "hex-caps" implemented
  • Performance enhacements for large number of expression values. Usefull when reading expression values from large file, see expression keyword "file:"

New in Flat File Extractor 0.3.2 (Apr 10, 2011)

  • Input preprocessing was implemented.

New in Flat File Extractor 0.3.1 (Sep 29, 2010)

  • Record keyword "level" and printing keywords "group-header", "group-trailer", "element-header" and "element-trailer implemented. These can be used to print flat file contents in structured format (e.g. multilevel XML).
  • Record keyword "record-length" implemented. This can be used to ignore extra fields that are not defined for a record.

New in Flat File Extractor 0.3.0 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • Having the same field in several expression (option -e,--expression) works now. Earlier only the last expression in command line was used.
  • Option -X,--casecmp implemented

New in Flat File Extractor 0.2.9 (Dec 29, 2009)

  • New keyword output-file implemented for printing to different output files

New in Flat File Extractor 0.2.8 (Mar 30, 2009)

  • Records can now be identified by regular expressions using new keyword "rid"
  • When reading binary input with -l,--loose option, invalid block does not any more cause program to abort. Instead the input is searched until a valid block is found