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I'm not very active on this blog. But I'm very active developing new features for my apps and interacting with users on my support pages (here and on Quick Access Popup website.

Yesterday, I released version 2.0 of CSV Buddy. There is a new "field-by-field" record editor. The old "full-screen" is still available if you prefer it.

See what's new in this release:

• New Record editor dialog box with field-by-field edition (support up to 200 fields per row)
• New "Options" tab to change setting values saved to the CSVBuddy.ini file
• New option "Record editor" for choice of 1) "Full screen Editor" (legacy) or 2) "Field-by-field Editor" (new), default is 2
• New option "Encapsulate all values" to always enclose saved values with the encapsulator character
• Display a "Create" button on first tab to create a new file based on the Set header data
• Remember the last folder where a file was loaded
• Code signature with certificate from DigiCert
• See history for v1.3.9 and v1.3.9.1 for details and bug fixes

Even if I give paid it less attention in recent months, my CSV Buddy software continues to receive good reviews. Here's one that takes a bit as a tutorial: CSV Buddy: Edit CSV Files And Export Them To Other Formats (thanks to Rajat Sharma).

CSV Buddy is a useful and easy to use free software to edit CSV files and export them to other formats. It provides a hassle free way to edit your CSV files and save them to a variety of popular formats. With features like a simple tabbed interface, ability to handle extremely heavy CSV files (over 100 MB), and direct previews via Notepad, CSV Buddy is quite a solid application overall.

A new version of CSV Buddy is now online. Thanks for all users who contributed with their suggestions!

What’s new:

• search and replace by column, replacement case sensitive or not
• confirm each replacement or replace all
• during search or replace, select and highlight the current row when displaying the record found
• option in ini file to display or not a grid around cells in list zone
• options in ini file to choose background and text colors in list zone
• up or down arrow to indicate which field is the current sort key
• allow multiple instances of the app to run simultaneously
• import CSV files created by XL that include equal sign before the opening field encasulator

CSV Buddy download, comments and support.

Interesting to see how a CSV file is transfromed to an HTML page using CSV Buddy to produce the We Love Aural home page.

Thanks to the creators of this page (@DanieTreg, @phantomdiorama and @destroy_robots) for mentioning CSV Buddy in their credits page.

A new version of CSV Buddy is now online. Update is recommended for data reliability (eliminate occasional file locking system errors) . What’s new:

2013-12-30 v1.1

• filter by column: click on a header to retain only rows with the keyword appearing in this column
• global filtering: right-click in the list zone to retain only rows with the keyword appearing in any column
• search by column: find the next row having the keyword in this column and open it in row edit window
• global search: find the next row having the keyword in any column and open it in row edit window
• in edit row window search result, highlight the field containing the searched keyword
• added stop and next buttons to edit row window when search in progress
• added reload original file to the column menu and the list context menu
• display the current edited record number in edit row title bar
• add blnSkipConfirmQuit option in ini file to skip the quit confirm prompt, default to false
• use ObjCSV library v0.4 for better file system error handling

CSV Buddy download, comments and support.

I found a small bug in the "Add row" dialog box where default values were presented when this dialog box should not have default values. Easily fixed in v1.0.1.

The new distribution file now include v1.0.1. But, since the minor release 1.1 should be ready in a few days only, I won't trigger the "Check for update" function in v1.0 now. Existing v1.0 users will receive the fix with v1.1.

CSV Buddy download, comments and support.

I'm now working on the next version of CSV Buddy. Here is a kind of road map for future versions.

Version 1.1 (to be released soon)

• filter by column: click on a header to retain only rows with the keyword appearing in this column
• global filtering: right-click in the list to retain only rows with the keyword appearing in any column
• search by column: open in row edit window the next row having the keyword in this column
• global search: open in row edit window the next row having the keyword in any column

Version 1.2 (don't know when, yet)

• load a file from an FTP site
• load a file from an HTTP address
• save a file to an FTP site

Version 1.3 (one of these days)

• manage load/save/export profiles: to avoid entering load, save or export options each time you load, save or export a file.
• in Fixed-width export, auto-detection of max width of each field

If you have comments, ideas, suggestions, priorities, here is the wish-list! Use the comment form below.

CSV Buddy helps you make your CSV files ready to be imported by a variety of software. You can load files with all sort of field delimiters (comma, tad, semi-colon, etc.) and encapsulators (double/single-quotes or any other character). Convert line breaks in data field making your file XL ready. Rename/reorder fields, add or edit records, save with any delimiters and export to fixed-width, HTML templates or XML formats.

What's new

• First official release
• Add records to existing data (right-click in the list zone)
• Create a new file from scratch (right-click in an empty list zone)
• Load the file mentioned as first parameter in the command line
• Add validation, confirm before exit and fix various small bugs

CSV Buddy download, comments and support.

CSV Buddy helps you make your CSV files ready to be imported by a variety of software. You can load files with all sort of field delimiters (comma, tad, semi-colon, etc.) and encapsulators (double/single-quotes or any other character). Convert line breaks in data field making your file XL ready. Rename/reorder fields, add or edit records, save with any delimiters and export to fixed-width, HTML templates or XML formats.

What's new

• Display "<1" (instead of "0") in status bar when file size is smaller than 0.5 K
• Removed CSV Buddy icon from the Tray
• Add three test delimited files to the package (see README.txt in the zip file)
• Fix default value of blnSkipHelpReadyToEdit in ini file to 0
• If an .ini file is not found in the program's folder, it is created with default values

CSV Buddy download, comments and support.

CSV Buddy download, comments and support.