Data Parse Free Edition for Windows

Key Details of Data Parse Free Edition

Convert your data by using a simple scripting language to mine, export, and modify your data.
Last updated on October 28, 2012
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Editors' Review

Download.com staffOctober 28, 2012

Despite its fun name and happy colors, Parse-O-Matic Free Edition is not a friendly, automated file conversion tool. Parse-O-Matic is a tool for programmers who want to make complex changes to a file and want to learn a new scripting language to do so.

Luckily, the language itself is straightforward and supports conventions such as arrays and regular expressions. It also offers many ways to find, compare, and alter data, including the capability to compare strings, numbers, lengths, and patterns. Parse-O-Matic comes with an enormous, detailed user manual in addition to many example scripts, from simple to advanced. Once you get the hang of writing POM scripts, you will probably be very pleased with the breadth of the input and output formats this program supports. You can input text and hex files as well as data from the Windows Clipboard. Supported output formats include CSV files, HTML and XML, the Clipboard, and many others. A log file keeps track of the conversions you perform. The Parse-O-Matic interface is plain but functional, allowing you to load a file and a script and to designate an output file. All of the magic happens in the scripting, however; for assistance, look to the program's Help file as well as the detailed instructional manual, which clocks in at more than 100 pages.

To access the Parse-O-Matic Free Edition, you must first register and obtain a trial code. The Free Edition does not support some Advanced scripting commands. The program is a powerful data-processing utility, but only experienced programmers--or those eager to learn--will be able to use this program in any meaningful way.

What's new in version 5.00.14

Version 5.00.14 adds HTTP and FTP as an input source, updated sample files, user manual (now 100+ pages), read/write from databases via ODBC.

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GENERAL

Release: October 28, 2012

Latest update: October 28, 2012

Version: 5.00.14

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

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Windows Vista
Windows 10
Windows 7
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server
Windows 2003
Windows 8

Additional Requirements: None

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User Reviews

3.3/5

6 User Votes

It's a really powerful tool for dealing with text files
SsardoOctober 9, 2015
Pros
Quite all the function you could think of for managing text files, even source code. Very fast, since the scripts are compiled in background (witha good disgnostic) and then run. Has a straightforward logic in file management (like RPG's approach): every file you pass it is scanned, and you could do some pre- and pos- processors. It could use indexed keyed files and in its latest version, even database. I could deal with EBCDIC and ASCII files, and you could build true "application" with it. Powerful log and msg management. It could be run by batch commands and for massive file editing. I make even business with Parse-O-Matic (converting and migrating codes and files), and it works very fine
Cons
Needs time to learn the proprietary language, even he manual is very well written The databases interface is rather poor, and the connection is only thru ODBC The free version has only a small subset of the available functions Quite expensive for full version (but you could do business with it)
Summary
One of the best text tool I've ever used: powerful, fast, reliable, well documented.
Free trial is very nice - but product is too expensive
JEfromCanadaFebruary 18, 2014
Pros
- Did a decent job parsing a file with mixed (text/binary) content - Free trial identified the features that weren't "free", to make it easier to determine what the final price would be if you decided to purchase - Sample parse scripts included with the product make it possible to use them as a starting point to your own scripts (also see "Cons")
Cons
- The program should have the ability to either determine, or be told, what type of data file is being analyzed (i.e. what program CREATED the data), so that it would have additional capabilities to analyze certain fields - Unable to process "currency" fields (dbase compatible currency fields) - Unable to recognize DATE fields stored as "days since a particular start date" (i.e. days since 1-Jan-1900 or days since 1-Jan-0000) - Paid product comes in three paid variants, and the price of paid product is too steep (Basic = $49, Business = $499, Enterprise = $1,995) - Documentation alludes to some "advanced" demo scripts being available for download from the website, but I could not find them. - Some commands have not been implemented, according to the documentation. These are commands I needed to use (such as converting from hexadecimal format to decimal format). - The user interface is a real bear to learn - I would have found it impossible without the included sample files
Summary
Despite being able to handle the majority of the "easy" fields, I found that even the simplest of non-trivial conversions would require features that were only available in the Business version of the product. For the number of times I would need to parse through arbitrary data, the cost is simply prohibitive. I would probably use a different product, such as ParseRat, which I also reviewed.
Like above, not free
neuromajorJune 17, 2009
Pros
you can try it for 30 days
Cons
baited. Advertised as free but not.
Summary
They try to sell you different versions, some up in the thousands of dollars.
Not free, this is a 30-day trial
russplaysguitarFebruary 3, 2009
Pros
None. Did not even get a chance to evaluate.
Cons
This software says it is free, but it is not.
Summary
This is a 30-day trial that you have to sign up for.
Why is there a Buy Now when its marked as free?
erothchildAugust 22, 2008
Pros
I thought it was useful so I wanted to see how much but its blank all the way through.
Cons
I have to think that this is garbage because a cart is much easier than making a compiler program and entering in the numbers for a price is... well you get the point, this guy needs to get it together.
Summary
It might even rate a 6th star.
StovesRUsJune 29, 2006
Pros
I was looking for something to convert a downloaded .csv file into SQL statements, as well as read/write to other files at the same time and was able to accomplish that with a simple script. I don't know how helpful the sample files are since I just jumped right in and wrote my own script. I have previously used AWK, so I just printed out the user manual and went to town. I found the documentation to be adequate, but a novice user might need a bit of tinkering to get up to speed. (Guess that's where the sample files come in.) The price tag seems a little bit steep, but if I continue to find uses for it, which I have no doubt I will, it will have earned it's keep. I have already used it for a couple of other text massaging tasks and am pleased with the results. Overall, it seems like a solid product with no hint of problems.
Cons
Haven't found any.
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Developer's Description

By National Data Parsing Corporation

Convert your data by using a simple scripting language to mine, export, and modify your data.

Programmable file parser. Extract data, mine reports. Copy, delete, parse, change, edit, reformat records: ASCII or EBCDIC text or binary files from Windows, Unix or Mac. Fixed or variable record length or delimited (for example, null or tab). Export CSV files for database or spreadsheet import. Analyze XML and HTML, clipboard. Migrate from legacy software. Runs via standard interface, batch file, command line, shortcut, task scheduler.