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GarrettVD
01-28-2009, 01:40 PM
I'm looking for a text editor that will not get (too) bogged down when editing very large files. The file I speak of is about 80,000 lines or so (Contains all postal codes in Canada).
Doesn't have to be fancy, so long as it can do a find & replace. Any suggestions? Either Linux or Windows apps are fine, as I have access to both. Let me know. Thanks! :)

Charles
01-28-2009, 01:54 PM
PSPad has worked for me with some really big XML files but it's best to try to avoid such things. You would do better to use what ever scripting you have available to mainpulate the file. PHP, Perl and JScript (JavaScript on Windows) should do the job quite well.

JPnyc
01-28-2009, 02:54 PM
I've used Notepad+ to open text files up to four gig. Notepad would choke on that for sure, so would most editors.

fireblade
01-28-2009, 03:31 PM
I recommend you PSPAD. Its really nice.