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    • Christie MobleyC Offline
      Christie Mobley
      last edited by

      I have a huge file txt 402 MB - Line Number 5846865. When I’m trying to sort it using Notepad++/TextFX it returns error: This tool is not compatible with binary text. Please select text without [NUL] characters…

      Thank you .

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      • Claudia FrankC Offline
        Claudia Frank @Christie Mobley
        last edited by

        @Christie-Mobley

        Sorry but what do you want us to do?
        Giving an advise how to sort binary data?
        Or find a way to remove the NUL chars so that you are able to do the sort with textfx?
        Or something else?

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Christie MobleyC Offline
          Christie Mobley
          last edited by

          Hopefully Notepad can improve TextFX sorting of Chinese UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-16 text files.

          Thank you

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          • Claudia FrankC Offline
            Claudia Frank @Christie Mobley
            last edited by Claudia Frank

            @Christie-Mobley

            afaik, TextFX is not maintained by npp developers and the original author hasn’t been
            updated since nearly 10 years or so, so I don’t think that you do get any updates on it.

            What about using the npp native functions? Menu Edit->Line operations.
            Don’t these work?

            Cheers
            Claudia

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            • Christie MobleyC Offline
              Christie Mobley
              last edited by

              Hello Cheers, I have tried Line operations., but my file is “bad allocation” as shown in the picture
              (https://imgur.com/a/xGnkq)

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              • Claudia FrankC Offline
                Claudia Frank @Christie Mobley
                last edited by

                @Christie-Mobley

                oopps - looks like ~6 million lines (or mabye 420 megabytes) is a little but to much.
                Could you give it a try with a smaller file?
                Maybe even checkout if it is sorting correctly with just a few lines of your unicode strings.

                Cheers
                Claudia

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                • Christie MobleyC Offline
                  Christie Mobley
                  last edited by

                  If I split the big file into two small files then the Line works very well. Hope one day that Notepad early days improve better in the future. Thank Cheers.

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