InfoRapid Search and Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently available for Microsoft Windows. With its built-in converters, it's excellently suitable for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found text passages can be replaced after the search is over. The search and replace process can be automated with the help of batch files to replace several phrases in one step. The found documents can be opened in a preview window, in which the matches are highlighted. A special feature is that InfoRapid can use Microsoft Office converters to search WinWord, Excel, Lotus and other documents and preview them in their original layout. The advantages of InfoRapid Search and Replace lie in the diverse search options and in the simple operation and handiness.
Replaces text in multiple files, you can use some tools to replace in several files without having to select each one of them
Cons
Only small texts will be replaced.
Download didn't work so I went to the publishers site and got it there, had to uninstall with windows config, my computer rebooted automatically after uninstall, that didn't happen to me in about 8 years or so
Summary
There are simpler programs than this one that do the job
Great find and replace tool
sysplex
Pros
I find this software great for find and replace in text files. It's lightening fast and always reliable. A must-have on all my computers.
Cons
None that I can think of.
Summary
Nothing to loose here.
Great text editing tool!
takethissoftware
Pros
Now, you can replace text lines in multiple files. Nice operators to narrow your search
Cons
It's better than what I expected, nothing bad to say about this software.
Summary
This is a very powerful and compact tool for people dealing with text editing a lot. This software will help to shorten your work time.
Falls Short
Sonny4399
Pros
does do search and replace across many files in a folder.
Cons
runs out of memory and shut downs a lot.
Summary
Got me out of trouble so a geat tool
Javed.Akhtar
Pros
Great for finding and replacing text in text based files, where a part of line content , or complete line needs replacing
Extensive regular expression support, so can perform other variations as well, although I did not need anything more complex
Cons
Output is rather messy and extensive. could be tidied up
BUT hey - it is free so stop griping
If you want fancy everything, then pay for it
Summary
great tool for searching and / or replacing text in multiple files. I had over 500 files I needed to replace some text in . Phew - cannot imagine doing that manually
Did what I needed so cannot complain. User interface is very simple, but not necessarily intuituve, and output is over verbose
Not simple to use - Didn't help me - Can't open files
angelady3
Pros
It might be useful to do huge tasks if you can get past how the hard to grab at first glance program.
Cons
It's not useful for small tasks at all. You can't paste text in to edit. You can't open a single file to edit. You can tell it only a directory or a folder, what to search for and it'll replace. Traditional menu at the top is not what you think.
Summary
I've opened numerous programs that I've never used before and immediately opened a file and went to playing with it. You try to select new or open at the top and it doesn't open the file, so that alone is confusing. When you go to the bottom of the screen to where you really find the folders of files for it to edit, you realize that it won't actually let you select one single file. You can only be general as to what directory or what folder to look for to edit all the files in. I thought, okay... I must be missing something, let me check out the help menu... another big surprise (disappointment) here as well because it gave me an error that it couldn't open the help menu! This program was a total waste of my time.
Does the job, no failure, GUI could be better
cdebel2005
Pros
It simply does the job without any failure. There's a batch option in it.
Cons
Setup could be better. Command line could be supported but nothing let me think that it's possible. But the possibility to use a "Command File" to do batching doesn't make it necessary.
Summary
About my cons:
A simple dialog form could give the user the possibility to setup the app as he want (no need to create a "seRapid.set" file in a specific file format... hopefully, this is described in the help)
This is a must-have tool
someoneisunderthebed
Pros
It does what it says, search and replace lines of text across multiple files. Very handy for replacing text strings in html files, such as adding in or changing server side includes, CSS link references in the header, anything else the the header, modifying table/cell specifications, and so on.
Cons
The result output, a text file, is a little hard to read and make sense of. But, that isn't connected to the actual results of modified text strings. Just look in the modified files to determine that the text strings were changed as you you wanted. If you entered the search info and replace info correctly, the results are exactly what you want.<p>Great tool.
Summary
Very useful
RobertsMrtn
Pros
Great program and very fast! I use this all the time in place of the windows search function which does not work at all.