Publisher review:Flat file extractor (ffe) can be used for parsing different flat file structures and printing them in different formats. Flat file extractor (ffe) can be used for parsing different flat file structures and printing them in different formats.
ffe is a command line tool developed in GNU/Linux environment and it is distributed under GNU General Public License 2 or later. ffe has been build using GNU autotools so it should be possible to build ffe in many kinds UNIX-like systems.
Main areas of use are:
- Extracting particular fields or records from a flat file
- Converting data from one format to an other, e.g. from CSV to fixed length
- Verifying a flat file structure
- Testing tool for flat file development
- Displaying flat file content in human readable form
- Modifying flat file structures
- Map flat file fields to another format
Features:
- Command-line tool
- Reads standard input and writes to standard output as default
- One input file can contain several types of records (lines)
- Fields in a flat file can be fixed length or separated
- Input file structure and output definitions are independent, meaning one output format can be used with several input files
- Input file structure and output format are 'freely' configurable, they are not predefined
- Output can be formatted e.g. as: fixed length, separated, tokenized, XML, SQL,...
- ffe tries to guess the input format, user needs not to give it as a parameter
Flat file extractor 0.2.7 is a C/C++ script for Test and Measurement scripts design by Timo Savinen.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Flat file extractor (ffe) can be used for parsing different flat file structures and printing them in different formats.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Flat file extractor 0.2.7 script details 
