We will look at these options in the Sort lines by key (text in a specific position) section below. We will look at these options in the sort text by field (CSV) section below. Tab delimited sort / Custom delimited sort You should only use this option with numeric characters, otherwise you likely won't get the results you expect. This option causes numbers to be sorted in numeric order, resulting in "1,2,11,12,111,222" instead. When you do an alphabetical sort in UltraEdit and you have numbers, the values 1,11,111 would be sorted before 2,22,222 as 1 comes before 2. This option is especially useful if you're sorting data where case doesn't matter, like email addresses, website URLs, etc. If you check this option, however, "cat" would be sorted above "CATEGORY". If you have the word "cat" and "CATEGORY", and this option is not checked, then "CATEGORY" would be sorted above "cat" because capital letters come before their lowercase counterparts in the ASCII table. Ignore caseīy default, UltraEdit's sort is case sensitive. If Where any selected keys match is selected with "Remove duplicates," then if only one of the sort keys with the "RD" column checked is exactly the same between two lines, they will be considered duplicates and one will be deleted. If Where all selected keys match is selected with "Remove duplicates," then all sort keys with the "RD" column checked must be exactly the same between two lines in order for them to be considered duplicates, and one will be deleted. Keep in mind a duplicate is determined based upon the sort criteria you specify elsewhere in the sort options, so it's important you understand what your sort settings are before checking this option! We'll look at Remove duplicatesĬheck this to remove all lines within the sorted text that are duplicates of each other. For example, when doing an alphabetical sort, if "descending" is selected here then the word "zebra" would be sorted above the word "cat". The most obvious option, this setting allows you to determine whether the data is sorted in ascending or descending order. Here is a brief overview of each option: Sort order (ascending / descending) You can access the sort options by clicking the down-arrow beneath the Sort command and selecting Advanced sort/options. Now this is great, but what if you need to tweak your sort settings to get a slightly different result? Let's take a look at UltraEdit's advanced sort options.
With the selection active, we can click Sort, and only the text selection is sorted: In the example below, we want to sort everything except the header line, so we've selected all lines except line 1:
To sort only a portion of the text file, we'll simply select the lines we want to sort. If you haven't yet changed the sort options, then the defaults are used: a simple alphabetical ("a" to "z") sort. To do this, click the Edit tab, then click the Sort button near the end.Ĭlicking Sort will cause the entire file to be sorted, line-by-line, with the last-used sort options. Often we need to sort an entire file, line by line, alphabetically, starting with the first character on the line. Sort lines by key (text in a specific column position).
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How to sort a text file or CSV file with UltraEdit
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