Site index

FAQs - Frequently-asked questions

Help index - Index to Data Splitter program help

Quick-start - Get up and running quickly with Data Splitter

System requirements - Data Splitter system requirements

Features - Overview and feature summary

Request forms

Sample email parsers Guide to the email parsing samples

Sample file transformers Guide to the file search + transformation samples

Sample web scrapers Guide to the web scraping samples

Word pairs ("proximate words") email parser Identify messages containing word pairs within a certain distance of each other

Email parser Extract labeled fields from generated messages and transmit them to a database

Line break conversion Converting line breaks: line feed to (carriage return + line feed), + vice versa

File search + replacement Searching for + replacing text in files

File text search Grep-like file search

Syntax checker File syntax error checking - general principles

Web page number scraper Scraping numbers and other info from web pages

HTML table parser Extracting data from the first 5 columns of an HTML table

Web page text scraper Scraping titles, headers and other text from web pages

Web page keyword watcher Watching web pages for keywords

Database + ODBC Configuring a database and an ODBC Data Source Name

Data Splitter Development Tools Data Splitter software development kit

Email parsing: generate database from emails with Data Splitter Database creation from stored e-mails, MAPI email interface

Parsing, state machines, regular expressions Discussion of related concepts: parsing, regular expressions, state machines, state awareness, ...

Parse XML with Data Splitter Building an XML parser with Data Splitter, theory + example

U.S. Patent: "Configurable Pattern Recognition and Filtering Tool" How I got a U.S. patent on this idea for about $3000 (+ labor)

Release notes Notes regarding recent Data Splitter releases