ParseRat File Parser, Converter, Restructurer
by Guy Software

  NEVER AGAIN RE-KEY LEGACY DATA:
ParseRat v2.0 Parses, converts and restructures files. Reads most files including XML, web pages and tables, page image print files and other multi-line data blocks from other processes, fixed format, delimited, dBase, structured binary, etc. Can import from system clipboard. Valuable for extracting data from legacy processes or those where data can only be exported as printed reports. Reads ASCII and EBCDIC.
Intelligently parses and converts dates (including Julian and Y2K), names and
addresses into components, genderize names, etc. can generate Soundex and perform
intelligent DeDuplication.
Restructure names into different element sequence (e.g. from "phonebook"
format to "mailing list" format including elimination of noise words like
"fax line" or "residence"). Generate titles (Mr, Ms. etc) from first
names.
Convert addresses into standard (user defined) formats.
Automatically recognize and extract URL or EMail addresses from input
records.
Convert string output to UPPER CASE, lower case, Proper Case (Mixed Case -
with intelligent handling of capitalization exceptions like McDonald,
O'Rourke WordPerfect). Convert numeric information from decimal, hex or
scientific to decimal, hex or scientific notation.
Convert measurement units and perform arithmetic on incoming fields.
Output as XML, fixed format, delimited, mailmerge or dBase. Can export to system clipboard for pasting into other programs and databases.
No "Language" to learn, all done by point-and-click in Windows.
Standalone less than two megabyte executable which does not rely on the presence of the database engines of other products.

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