CatView2000 searches plain text files on a line by line basis. It is therefore useful for text files that are catalogs or lists of things (where each line represents a record or item).

Although it is possible to search line-delimited files with a ´Find´ feature in a word-processor or web browser, this will not cater for finding groups of words or returning a list of matching lines. Using the ´Find´ method, it is usually necessary to iterate through all the matches in a document until you locate the one you´re looking for. If it is a large file, this can be very tedious.

With CatView2000, files are searched by specifying up to 3 keywords. These keywords can use case sensitivity, boolean (AND/OR) and wildcards. CatView will then search the file and copy all matching lines into a grid for viewing and manipulation.

Once a search is completed in CatView, the results can then be ´saved´, ´appended´, ´printed´, etc. It is also possible to search multiple files in one go.

CatView is configurable and represents a complete yet simple catalog-file search and results gathering solution.