Thanks for this feedback Mike!
The Data Profiler has been handy for me to see if a file has any
unusually high or low frequencies of certain bytes, or if what looks like a
text file actually has some binary or unanticipated control characters
embedded in it. The start offset, end offset, and leng
I have a few opinions to offer.
First, what is this data profile for? I know of only a few things one would
use that sort of profile for, and those could all be handled by looking at
the first Kbyte of the data.
(Guessing natural language, guessing charset, LF vs. CRLF, and guessing
text vs. binar
In v1.3.1 we've added support for editing large files, but it has
exposed some other challenges related to search, replace, and data
profiling. I outline the problems and possible solutions to these problems
in a discussion thread here (
https://github.com/ctc-oss/daffodil-vscode/discussions/122).