CSV Viewer/Editor - Searching CSV like Everything Search

[Stamimail]

I'm looking for a tool can search CSV files the same way like Everything Search does, Search is filtering the lines in the table.
Suppose you have a Contacts or a Library data base, and you want to find/view fast the desired info in the data base.

[froggie]

Just a single .csv file?

Try Notepad++ (even better with the Search+ plugin), any spreadsheet program (EXCEL, LibreOffice, etc), or just plain Notepad or Wordpad

[salazor]

You can also use CSVFileView from Nirsoft - only read... or CSVed: http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/

[Stamimail]

Thank you.

Just a single .csv file?

Yes. Support for more kinds of database files, is better of course.

I couldn't find the feature I was looking for but only in CSVFileView from Nirsoft (it's called there Quick Filter - Ctrl+Q).
This feature is good, and behaves like Everything, but I think CSVFileView still not enough good. Everything looks much better and has more features. the problem is that Everything designed for search files and not text of database.

The idea started from a library PC supposed to let the library users to search books from a database of books of the library.
Everything style ("Quick Filter") looks to me much better for use by many users, than Excel search dialog-box.

[salazor]

And you checked CSVed is an advanced editor .csv files.

[Stamimail]

@salazor
I've checked CSVed but not much. It's looked indeed as advanced tool. Maybe too advanced for the goal I looked for.
I think I didn't find there "Quick Filter" feature and also I had trouble to display Unicode characters correctly.

[yrwin]

This question is a bit offtopic for everything, but i recommend Logparser (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scr ... 19274.aspx). It has SQL-like access too.

[NotNull]

Saw this on the AutoHotKey forum and remembered your question.
Sources are no longer available there (due to a hack, it seems), but can be found here.

Seems to do what you want. And if not: you can finetune the AHK code to your liking ..

BTW: I recommend Logparser too (handy tool; not only for logs, but most structured data), but maybe not specific for this purpose.

[Stamimail]

Saw this on the AutoHotKey forum and remembered your question..

Thanks. I tested it a little
CSV Quick Filter (CSVQF) also seems it has a way to do till it will reach Everything GUI features and performance.

BTW: I recommend Logparser too (handy tool; not only for logs, but most structured data),

I can't see a GUI here.

but maybe not specific for this purpose.

Maybe it would be better to find a Spreadsheet Program with this Quick Filter (Filter-As-You-Type) feature.

[tuska]

EmEditor Professional ?
Video: Enhanced CSV features, Filter Bar, Sort by Multiple Columns

[Stamimail]

Yes. Looks like the commercial version of EmEditor has a Quick Filter with a good GUI features and performance.
Note for RTL users

EmEditor curently doesn’t support RTL documents.

[NotNull]

Another alternative:

In powershell, issue this command:

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Import-Csv c:\path\to\your.csv | Out-GridView

and take a closer look at all the interface elements
I think it will supprort RTL

type

help ogv

for more configuration options (or ask here )

EDIT: There are rather big improvements in Out-GridView with newer PS versions. Depending on what Windows verso=ion you will run this, you get extra options.

[Stamimail]

My experience with Powershell is very low. I remember I need to make changes with the policy or something like that. I'm using W7 x64.
Before going further with this, can you find a video (YouTube) or screenshot that describes what you saw?

[NotNull]

Those execution policies (you remembered correctly ) are for running .PS1 scripts.

In this case you can do without those policies:
- Run Powershell.exe
- Enter command

Import-csv c:\path\to\your.csv | Out-GridView

And there you go!

Import-csv has several options for importing ASCII, UTF8, etc layouts so things may not look perfect this 'first round'.
Just to give you an idea ..

I *did* create a snapshot to make it more clear, but was not allowed tro post it.
A video ? You're asking a lot from a command-line guy But I'll see what I can do for you ...

[Stamimail]

I managed to run it. Here's how it looks on my side:
https://snag.gy/9axf24.jpg

I didn't asked to record a video, just to try to find prepared one ...

[NotNull]

I didn't asked to record a video, just to try to find prepared one ...

Ah, OK; missed that one ...

Still not in the neigbourhood of a Win7 machine. As an alternative:

1. Different input file
Try it with

Get-process | select * | out-gridview

Input (file) itself is less Important here; focus on the Filter bar and the "Add criteria" button and the search options tht hide behind it.

2. Different encoding
When importing your csv, you can use different encodings. On Win10 (PowerShell 5.1), those are:

• Unicode
• UTF7
• UTF8
• ASCII
• UTF32
• BigEndian
• Unicode
• Default
• OEM

A

help import-csv

should show you the available encodings on Win7 / your PowerShell version (probably 2.0)

For example: try

Import-csv -Encoding Default "c:\path to \your.csv" | Out-GridView

to see if that displays your CSV better.


HTH ..

[Stamimail]

On W7 I couldn't find encoding options and

Import-csv -Encoding Default "c:\path to \your.csv" | Out-GridView

didn't work.
But I tested it on a W10 VM, and it worked.
https://snag.gy/J3s6r5.jpg

I like:
The default search applies on all columns.
The advanced search (Add criteria).
Search RTL Text works.

I dislike:
There is no highlighting of the search in results.
I couldn't flip the view, to get RTL layout.

Thank You.

[NotNull]

You're welcome!

Whenever the next suitable CSV viewer appears on my radar, I'll post it.

[Mharvey500]

What I need is a command line tool that searches a CSV file for lines that match a key to a specific field in the line, e.g. name or address, etc. This is needed for Windows but it would be nice to have it on Linux.
I currently have my data in a LibreOffice spreadsheet and I export it to CSV, then I run a PowerShell script to search the CSV file. I want to get away from PowerShell because of lack of portability.
I can't use a GUI because I need the search results as inputs to another program, in this case an audio file tagger.
This should all be done with one script without interacting with a Gui.

[NotNull]

This is needed for Windows but it would be nice to have it on Linux.

I want to get away from PowerShell because of lack of portability.

PowerShell Core is supported on most Linux distributions (and LibreOffice can be scripted)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powers ... wershell-7

[Mharvey500]

Thanks for the info. I was able to get gawk to search a tab separated file very quickly, much quicker than PowerShell.
"gawk -F $'\t'"
Do you know how to script LibreOffice to save or export an ods file to csv or tsv from command line?

[NotNull]

Do you know how to script LibreOffice to save or export an ods file to csv or tsv from command line?

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"c:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe" --convert-to csv t:\demo.ods  --headless

should do it, although that doesn't produce a CSV file on my (stripped to the bone) LibreOffice.

Typ soffice.exe --help for more options.

[Mharvey500]

Referring to https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question ... -id-144958
I had success producing a tab separated UTF-8 encoded file with,
"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe" --headless --convert-to csv:"Text - txt - csv (StarCalc)":9,34,76 myfile.ods
where 9 is ascii for tab field separator, 34 is ascii for double quote text delimiter, and 76 is UTF-8 character set index.

[NotNull]

Thank you for this!