[WEB4LIB] block text search/replace utility?

[Christopher Adams]

Thank you! It took 5 minutes to download and set up and 5 minutes to do
a job that other utilities didn't handle very well. It looks like there
are alot of other features to explore also. Thanks again.

Christopher Adams

Tara Calishain wrote:
> 
> At 11:43 AM 12/19/2001, Christopher Adams wrote:
> >I'm looking for a utility that will do a search and replace on blocks of
> >text in a large file. The blocks of text are about a page long. In some
> >cases, the text is replaced with space, and in some cases it is replaced
> >with other text.
> >
> >I have found free utilities that do a good job of replacing lines or
> >words in one or multiple files, but have not found one that does a good
> >job at replacing large blocks of text.
> 
> I LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV TextPipe. Luv luv luv.
> 
> I don't know how large your file is, but I regularly run 700K text files
> through it
> and it doesn't even burp. I use it also to place HTML "wrappers" around text
> files. The wrappers are large blocks of text though I don't think they're a
> page
> long.
> 
> You can get a free trial version at http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/ .
> 
> Tara
> 
> Tara Calishain / tara at researchbuzz.com
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