Petra:
There's a growing number of GUI based tools. I seem to recall PowerGrep
is fairly effective and has a whole range of options including search and
replace on multiple files...
(Maybe too many... but that's an individual choice).
See
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/25-text-batch-processing-tools-reviewed/
for listings of many options.
I've tended in the past to use Perl regular expressions which is now a deal
easier in Windows 10 because a bash shell is now available and under that,
there are quite a few Unix/Linux packages that can be installed., including
Perl and Python. There would be Python tools available too for regexes.
So command line stuff is now a bit easier and expands options too.
On 16 August 2018 at 14:43, Petra Liverani <petral@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a tool where you can do multiple text string find and
replace in multiple documents, with priority on the multiple text string
rather than the multiple documents.
I found a seemingly fantastic tool, Replace Text (http://www.ecobyte.com/
replacetext/), which would seem to perform both functions easily but it
is no longer supported and I notice it mentions that there is a problem
with Windows 7 so I'm assuming the fact that I can't make it work in
Windows 10 is to do with lack of upgrade. Such a shame because it seems so
powerful and I cannot understand why there does not seem to be an
equivalent either free or paid.
My sister is looking at what she can do in Powershell but I wondered if
anyone knew of a tool for non-programming types. I realise you could do a
macro in Word but I want to do it for quite a large number of strings and I
imagine Word wouldn't really like that very much. I think a specific tool
would work much better. There's textcrawler but as far as I can tell that
searches single strings in multiple files.
Regards,
Petra
