You can cut, copy and paste data in your data files. You can also paste data from the clipboard. Data File Editor can store information on the clipboard in two formats:
- Binary
- This supports the full character set available within the record data.
- Text
- This replaces nulls with spaces, enabling paste operations in tools that accept text-format blocks.
You can cut, copy, and paste information from one of the following views. The method used depends on the view you are using:
- Record view
- You can click on complete records to select them for a cut, copy or paste operation, then right-click to display a popup menu from which you can click on the appropriate operation.
- Record Hexadecimal view and Field Hexadecimal view
- You can select characters for a cut, copy or paste operation, then right-click to display a popup menu from which you can click on the appropriate operation.
- Field view
- When a field is open for editing, you can select characters for a cut, copy or paste operation, then right-click to display a popup menu from which you can click on the appropriate operation. If the field is a COMP item, you can only select complete fields as the binary characters representing the field are copied to the clipboard.
When pasting a record into an indexed file, you must provide unique record keys. When pasting a record into a relative file, you must provide a unique relative record number.
