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This application is designed for merging two different text files, or for merging a single text file into a new file. It can be handy for operations such as "One from column A and one from column B", converting lists to HTML or XML, and other line-based text manipulation tasks. It's the sort of utility that you don't know you need until you need it, but when you do, it saves you a LOT of time.

Most merge tools are designed for comparing two versions of the same file. It's hard to find a tool that will combine two files into a new file. LineMerge is the answer - a specific tool for a specific task.

Possible Uses of LineMerge

You have a file containing a list of 500 items that you want to get into a web form. It will take a long time to add the HTML tags by hand.

What would have been a very dull and time-consuming task is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:

This technique can also be used to convert items to XML or add other HTML formatting tags.

You have two related lists that you want to merge but you'll have to do it by hand because you need two lines from file A to correspond to each line of file B.

What would have been a long cut-and-paste session is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:

This is the same example presented by the introductory screenshot.

You want to strip all of the newlines from a file.

Easily done using LineMerge with these settings:

You have a file full of thousands of records that need to have some header data added to each of them, and each record is spaced 6 lines apart.

What would have been a very long and gruelling task is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:

You have a file containing a bunch of records and only need the third line of each 6-line record. For instance, you might want to harvest the first names from a list of addresses.

What would have taken a ton of time by hand is made quick and easy by LineMerge with these settings:

It would be just as easy to include everything except the sixth line of each record by using an include of 5 and a skip value of 1.

You have a file containing 1000 sentences without punctuation and you want to add a period to the end of each one. Easily done with these settings: