Combining reference files for easy search

[Gary Beene]

For ease of search, I've found it very useful to combine multiple text files into a single file. For example, I made a file consisting of all the .bas files in the sample folders. I've made similar merged files for other file types.

The freeware tool I used to do this is called TXTcollector, at http://bluefive.pair.com/txtcollector.htm

It can combine text file types of different extensions into a single text file.

It's excellent for easily browsing the content of all the reference files without having to jump from file to file.

Just thought others would benefit from it as well.

It's not a PowerBASIC 3rd party tool, so I thought mentioning it here would be appropriate, rather than in the other forum.

[Erich Schulman]

You can also do something like this:

for %f in (*.bas) do type %f >> everything.bas

If you do this in a batch file, use %%f instead of %f. I like to use "f" for file, but any letter will do.

The DOS command FOR works like the for of Python, not like the statement in PB or C. Think of it like "foreach".

[Dave Biggs]

For ease of search, some programmers editors have "Find in files" type search tools built in (Ultra Edit, EditPlus etc).

Otherwise Windows Grep http://www.wingrep.com/ is very capable too.

Maybe more people should ask PB if PBEdit could offer the possibility of user defined tools in a future release?

[Michael Mattias]

Maybe more people should ask PB if PBEdit could offer the possibility of user defined tools in a future release?

Not quite the same thing, but "command prompt" is available from IDE .. it's on the File menu, not the Tools menu. (Nope, I don't know why not).