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if it is in any kind of easily formatted manner comma, tab, pipes, etc, then yes.

depending on your windows, you might be able to take advantage of WSL or as a last resort run cygwin. maybe there are other methods of using awk/sed/grep type utilities as well, but I am not familiar.

i still remember the day when someone watching me struggling with large text files and took pity on me by showing me the light of the holy power of awk/sed/grep. it was taking minutes to make each search/replace edits and I had several of them. it took mere seconds for the shell commands to process the same thing.



Looks like I have some research to do, thank you!


Just paying it forward! Standing on the shoulder of giants.




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