I have a ton of garbage text with about 100 email addresses scattered within. I want a text file containing just those email addresses. Is there an MS Word search/replace query that will do that? What is it? (Or is there another way?)
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Apr 13, 2009 - 15 answers

I recently switched over to a plain text file as my to-do list; I can structure it the way I want, it is an absolute cinch to access in any one of a hundred zillion different ways, it's crossplatform, and so on. However, I am running into one methodology I can't figure out how to translate into the "plain text" world, and that is repeating tasks. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Jul 7, 2008 - 23 answers

I have two versions of a largeish text file, one a slightly modified version of the other. Is there any app I can run in Xp that would report the differences between the two on a line-to-line basis? Could it also do the same for a whole mess of corresponding text files within a large directory structure?
posted by signal on Nov 13, 2004 - 8 answers

Is there any easy command or application that will randomise lines in a text file? [more inside]
posted by humuhumu on Nov 12, 2004 - 11 answers