Find and Replace?

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In (e-mail address removed), Michael said...
I'm looking for a program that can find and replace text in a very large
text file. The file is almost 4 megs. Both notepad and wordpad freeze up
when I try to do it.
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Editor2 is a nice, compact standalone executable with full featured find &
replace and reportedly no file-size limit.

http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
 
Bill Hinds said the following on 3/23/2004 8:21 PM:
In (e-mail address removed), Michael said...




Editor2 is a nice, compact standalone executable with full featured find &
replace and reportedly no file-size limit.

http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
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The sed Unix command is an extremely powerful search and replace tool.
Sed has been ported to windows by the GnuWin32 project.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm

Also see this one made by the Hotmail Popper guy (I haven't tried this one):
http://www.boolean.ca/replace/
 
Michael said:
I'm looking for a program that can find and replace text in a very large
text file. The file is almost 4 megs. Both notepad and wordpad freeze up
when I try to do it.
Click to expand...

The majority can handle it. I've discovered that SR speed can vary a lot.
Usually it's in the larger programmer's editors where the operation is
very fast. While the standard or smaller editors, they tend to do something
differently. Line by line, visible, and the delay can become significant
when doing an SR in a large file.

Exceptions. I've just tested Prolix. It's a fairly standard, straightforward
type. Not a complex design environment like some of the others. It doesn't
use the registry. Only a local .ini. It's MDI, multiple windows; although
not tabbed interface. It is written in Delphi.

I gave it a 4mb file, and it loaded it instantly (500mhz/192mb). The
SR operation was completed in something of a second. It also was able
to undo the whole SR with same speed.

There is nothing fancy in the SR dialog. Yet you didn't indicate needing
anything special there. It doesn't do block, multiline, wildcard, any
of that. It does have some basics. Match Case; Whole Words Only; Selected
Text or Whole Document; Forward or Backward; From cursor or Entire Scope.

Fits your specs, as given. Fast to load and SR on a 4mb file. It has the
feature of not writing to the registry or making external files when it is
run. (I can't tell you if the download tries to make you run an installer,
though.) So seems you ought give it a shot. If you find some additional
feature needed, that Prolix does not have, then post again.

http://www.kobayashi.com/prolix.html
http://www.kobayashi.com/software/prolix32_v32.zip
 
I'm looking for a program that can find and replace text in a very large
text file. The file is almost 4 megs. Both notepad and wordpad freeze up
when I try to do it.
 
Michael said:
I'm looking for a program that can find and replace text in a very
large text file. The file is almost 4 megs. Both notepad and wordpad
freeze up when I try to do it.
Click to expand...

BK Replacem 2.0 from http://www.orbit.org/replace/

<quote>
At its core, BK ReplaceEm is essentially a text search-and-replace program.
However, unlike the search-replace functionality of a standard text editor,
BK ReplaceEm is designed to operate on multiple text files at a time. 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.
<endquote>
 
Michael wrote in said:
I'm looking for a program that can find and replace text in a very large
text file. The file is almost 4 megs. Both notepad and wordpad freeze up
when I try to do it.
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Just adding to your options, if you want fast and don't mind
the command line, you might want to try:
GSAR from: <http://home.online.no/~tjaberg/>
gsar111.zip, General Search And Replace on files. (Documentation
& Source). The archive contains a WIN32 executable.
<http://home.online.no/~tjaberg/gsar111.zip

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Michael said:
I'm looking for a program that can find and replace text in a very large
text file. The file is almost 4 megs. Both notepad and wordpad freeze up
when I try to do it.
Click to expand...

http://www.silveragesoftware.com/handytools.html

i created a 10mb file via vb.
started s&r, changing all ABCDEF's with BDE's.
it took less than 10", including creating a .bak.
cant tell with longer strings, paragraphs and the like.
 
Michael said:
I'm looking for a program that can find and replace text in a very large
text file. The file is almost 4 megs. Both notepad and wordpad freeze up
when I try to do it.
Click to expand...

Atlantis Nova has a good SR tool.
www.rssol.com

Cordialement,
Hervé LOTH
 
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