New in Version 19.7
March 24, 2020
New General Features
- Added the Move/Copy Column(s) command, and it can be selected via the right-click menu on the ruler. Selecting this command brings up a dialog box where you can specify where you want to move or copy selected columns or the current column to.
- Added the Combine Columns command, and it can be selected via the right-click menu on the ruler. Selecting this command brings up a dialog box where you can select whether to concatenate columns or to use the first non-empty value.
- Added an option to combine columns to the Extract Columns and Join CSV commands.
- Greatly improved the speed of multiline search using an improved algorithm and multi-threaded code.
Test results:
| v19.6 | v19.7 | Comparison | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find a multiline string *1 | 68.8 seconds | 0.625 seconds | 110 times faster |
| Replace a multiline string *2 | 25.3 seconds | 0.907 seconds | 27.9 times faster |
| Replace a multiline regular expression *3 | 54.1 seconds | 24.0 seconds | 2.25 times faster |
*1 Find a 10-line string, Count Matches enabled, 1 string matched.
*2 Replace “ab\nde” with “@”, Escape Sequence selected, 17 strings matched.
*3 Replace “a.*?\nb.*?\nc” with “@”, Regular Expression selected, 9,842 strings matched.
1.34 GB, 100,000,000 lines, ASCII random data file. 16 threads, Windows 10 (64-bit), Core i9-9900K, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD.
New Options
- Added the Move/Copy Columns dialog box.
- Added the Combine Columns dialog box.
- Added the Combine with previous column check box and the Concatenate and Use first non-empty value radio buttons to the Extract Column dialog box.
- Added the Combine with previous column check box and the Concatenate and Use first non-empty value radio buttons to the Join CSV dialog box.
New Commands
- Move/Copy Column(s)
- Combine Columns
Plug-in API New Features
- Added the EE_EDIT_COLUMN message, Editor_EditColumn inline function, and EDIT_COLUMN_INFO structure.
Macro New Features
- Added the MoveColumn and CombineColumns methods to the Document object.