TextCrawler for Windows

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Developer’s Description

By DigitalVolcano

Search and replace text across multiple files.

A powerful tool for searching and replacing across multiple text files. Supports regular expressions and provides an expression tester and library facility. It also features an interactive file list and highlighted search results. Easy to use, suitable for programmers, web developers, or any who has to process text. Features: find and replace across files; fast searching, even on large files; simple to use interface with preview facility; flexible search parameters; text extractor - rip text into a new file; fuzzy text searching; search and replace using regular expressions; create sophisticated searches.

TextCrawler for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: November 20, 2014

Latest update: April 29, 2019

Version: 3.0.3

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows Server
Windows 7
Windows 10
Windows 2003
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 8
Windows Vista

Additional Requirements: .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.5

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 260,058

Downloads Last Week: 3

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User Reviews

4.1/5

17 User Votes

Latest version is not free
CroccosNanosFebruary 9, 2016
Pros
Powerful tool but all features that I use daily have been there since version 2.
Cons
- v3 is no longer free - interface, color scheme and template changes are a downgrade and look like a product from the nineties.
Summary
NOT FREE as advertised
ladybug2535June 27, 2015
Pros
Have not tried the program due to false advertising
Cons
This program is being advertised as "Free" when it actually costs the user $45. I refuse to buy any software that utilizes false advertising to try and hook customers. Not only that, $45 seems pretty high for what this software is purported to do.
Summary
Won't try. Won't buy. False advertisement.
Time saving
alesterw123September 29, 2013
Pros
The software is very simple to understand and saves lots of time. It shows the changes in highlighted type within few seconds.
Cons
It only works under .NET framework 2.0.
Summary
Superb program
sellyourmomMarch 26, 2012
Pros
easy to use, fully supports all regular expression features, offers saving results in a convenient format
Cons
can't think of any
Summary
highly recommended
When opening many files fails...
ScottMSandersMarch 4, 2012
Pros
It easily and quickly finds and replaces text in tons of files, unlike opening them all at once in a multi-file text editor.
Cons
None so far!
Summary
Still the awesomeness of Text Crawler, just updated.
jandsm5321November 22, 2011
Pros
Lots of features, fast.
Cons
Doesn't do my laundry.
Summary
If you need to search through files a lot learning to use this program will save you lots of time! I use it to search XML files for modding games.
Just what I need
bcoulamOctober 31, 2011
Pros
See my 2.0 review. Has every feature I was looking for, and was faster than all the other freeware (and most commercial) search tools with regexp.
Cons
None, sorry to be a drag.
Summary
With the addition of the right-click menu option to copy the found file's name and path to the clipboard, this fast little free search tool has everything I need in a file/directory scanner.
Excellent stuff
James RiceJune 21, 2011
Pros
Does what it claims - and well
Cons
Not quite as featureful as I'd like for regex handling and multiple replacements.
Summary
All 'round I think that this is a jolly good piece of software. Everything it claims to do it does with aplomb. It's a little hard to be critical of shareware like this that's as good as this, especially if the only problems I have with it are features that I'd like that it doesn't claim to have, and perhaps nobody else would like anyway. Still, in case the author is reading (well done, incidentally), and in case there are other people like me, here are my feature requests: 1) When doing regexp-based replacements, it'd be very useful to be able to tell it to pluck out bindings using the regexp and arrange them as desired in a replacement. It's great that one can *find* text using a regexp, but one can't use the power of the pattern match to be able to compute a replacement on-the-fly. For example, let's consider the case of wanting to replace all instances of US-type date syntax with the British style. That is, for the fifteenth of March of 2011 an American would write (say) 03/15/2011, but an Englishman would write 15/03/2011. One can detect such instances easily enough with (say - yes I know you could be more precise) \d\d/\d\d/\d\d\d\d, or grouped as: (\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d\d\d\d). However, there's no way (that I've found) to swap over the parts in the replacement. I'd like to be able to specify the replacement string such that it can pick up the bindings from the search pattern. So, I'd like to be able to specify the replacement string as (say) ${1}/${0}/${2}. This would be a hugely valuable feature for me. This is a generalisation of a nice feature that one found in the "edi" line editor under RSX many moons ago. One used to be able to say s/foo...bar/bob...sally to replace any string beginning with "foo" and ending with "bar" for one beginning with "bob" and ending with "sally". The "..." got bound to the intervening text and propagated appropriately. Of course, it was less powerful in that one couldn't reorder the bindings. 2) It'd be nice to be able to perform multiple edits all in one fell swoop. Sometimes when doing complex edits it's necessary to perform multiple coordinated edits. For example, if you want to swap all occurences for the string "Bob" with the string "Sally" then you generally have to rename all "Bob" occurrences into some intermediate (say) "@@@@Bill@@@@", substitute all "Sally" strings into "Bob" and then all "@@@@Bill@@@@" strings into "Sally". Sometimes there are more complex cases, but I'm sure you get the picture. It'd be nice to be able to set this up as a single bulk edit. I've only ever seen this sort of thing in an interactive editor in an obscure editor on the Ferranti Argus 700 machine, but it was *really* useful. 3) One particular case of the sort of multiple edit discussed above is found when renaming things in languages like Java. If I have a class called (say) BigDog, then I will typically also have variables called (say) bigDog, methods called getBigDog, and perhaps constants called BIG_DOG. One also finds that there will be a file called BigDog.java which will need to be renamed. It's be great to have specialised support for this sort of thing.
Outstanding free regex search engine
jlawsheJune 13, 2011
Pros
Standard and regex/grep search Robust (does not crash with search/replace on 10k+ html files) Searches across multiple lines Regex tester Exports search results Standard and regex searches Thorough documentation
Cons
No cons found
Summary
This is by far the best regex/grep engine I've found so far: it's amazing that it's free/donation based. It's a fantastic way to perform bulk search-and-replace operations on lots of files (tested on over 14,000 HTML files in one batch). Even venerable commercial products like Dreamweaver froze up on my system with the same job, but TextCrawler kept working. It's clear that a lot of thought and user testing went into features like, the scratchpad, expression tester, and results export. Outstanding product.
Great text manipulator with very easy interface
lawton20April 26, 2011
Pros
,Will work with multiple files, Very flexible in replace style
Cons
Lacks cyclic replace from an input text file. If it had that it would be the only replace tool I'd use
Summary
Good for all text replacements except where you want input text to come from an external file.