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Replace Text for Windows

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Replace Text is a powerful utility designed for batch search and replace operations across multiple text files. It supports complex operations and flexible file handling.
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  • Pros

    • Operates on multiple files simultaneously.
    • Supports lists of search-replace operations per file.
    • Generates backup files for processed documents.
    • Includes regular expression and range search-replace.
    • Provides detailed operation logging.

  • Cons

    • Only processes true text files, not binary files.
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Replace Text for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.2
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
1,994
Downloads Last Week
4
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Developer’s Description

By EcoByte
Search and replace the parts of the text file.
At its core, Replace Text is essentially a text search-and-replace program. However, unlike the search-replace functionality of a standard text editor, Replace Text is designed to operate on multiple files at once. And you need not only perform one search-replace operation per file; you can setup a list of operations to perform. If different groups of files need to have different operations performed on them, this is no problem either. You can also specify a backup file for each file processed, just in case the replace operation didn't do exactly what you wanted.Please Note: Replace Text is designed to operate only on true text files. Do not use Replace Text on binary files (such as Word documents) unless you understand the consequences.When specifying which files to be included in a particular replace operation, you can add one file at a time, or you can tell Replace Text to use all the files from a particular folder -- or the files from that folder that match a given file filter (such as *.txt or *.html). You can even specify to include all files that don't match a particular filter. Additionally, you can decide to include the files from all subfolders of that folder.One very powerful feature of Replace Text is that you can specify that the destination of the altered file be some other location than where it originally came from. This is handy, for instance, if you want to have some search-replace operations performed on a particular file and have it saved to a destination file, and then want to have different search-replace operations performed on the same file, and have it saved to a different location.Another powerful ability of Replace Text is to make use of regular expression search-replace operations, as well as range search-replace operations. These are, in fact, so powerful and complex that most users will probably not need to mess around with them. They are, however, vital in certain situations, and turn Replace Text into a much more intelligent text processor.When the replace operations are performed, a log file is generated to let you know if everything went ok; Information about which files were processed, where they were saved to, where they were backed up to, and how many replace operations were performed on them are provided.
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