When handling large database type files it is sometimes necessary to split the file into "records" or known line lengths as the file has been output without any delimiters/separators between records.
This feature allows a user-specified string to be inserted at a constant user-specified increment in the file from some start point in the file to some end point in the file.
Start Point:
The start point for this operation may be the beginning of the file or the position of the cursor. This is helpful if the file has a header in it that should not be treated as part of the data. The default behavior is that the beginning of the file is the start point.
End Point:
The end point may be specified as one of the following:
The end of the file (default behavior)
A known offset into the file
After the specified number of records have converted
When a particular string is found, in this case the insertion stops at or before the beginning of the string if found, if not found the option to continue or not is given.
Example:
A database file has records of known length of 2000 characters. Each record has been output consecutively with no separation between the records.
For editing purposes you want to put each record onto a single line.
With this feature you can specify the string to insert is "^p" (insert a newline - paragraph) and that the increment at which to insert the string is every 2000 characters.
UltraEdit will add the new line at the end of each record until the end of file is encountered.