[WEB4LIB] Re: block text search/replace utility?

[Raymond Wood]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:52:39AM -0800, Tara Calishain imagined:
> 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 will check out the above, as I'm always interested in
indispensable utilities of this kind.

Another amazing search and replace utility that is certainly
worth a look is the freeware windows 'BKReplacem' program.
Check out the right-click 'Advanced Edit' option, plus the
'Range Search' and 'Regular Expressions' functions...

Niiiiiice...  :)

Cheers,
Raymond
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