[thelist] Fastest Search and Replace

Mark Groen mark at markgroen.com
Fri Jul 19 13:11:00 CDT 2002


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On July 19, 2002 at 13:53, Joshua Olson wrote:

> Thank you to all who replied.  I tried to *open* a 40 meg text file in
> CF Studio (same engine as homesite) and the whole system came to a
> crawl and it STILL isn't done loading the file yet.  I was hoping
> somebody would present a DOS utility of some sort, or a windows app,
> that is specially designed for massive search and replaces... I don't
> need to actually edit the file above and beyond doing the replace.
> All editors that's I've encountered so far are hanging up on the huge
> files.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -joshua
>
Have you tried these?

http://www.zeusedit.com/whatsnew.html
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/fileman/features.htm
http://www.searchandreplace.com/

The last one looks promising! Found a *ton* of apps on Tucows for that also:
http://www.tucows.com/searchreplace95.html


Cheers,

         Mark


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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On July 19, 2002 at 13:53, Joshua
Olson wrote:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; Thank you to
all who replied. &nbsp;I tried to *open* a 40 meg text file in</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; CF Studio (same
engine as homesite) and the whole system came to a</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; crawl and it
STILL isn't done loading the file yet. &nbsp;I was hoping</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; somebody would
present a DOS utility of some sort, or a windows app,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; that is specially
designed for massive search and replaces... I don't</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; need to actually
edit the file above and beyond doing the replace. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; All editors that's
I've encountered so far are hanging up on the huge</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; files.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; Thanks again,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; -joshua</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Have you tried these?</span></font></div>
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</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://www.zeusedit.com/whatsnew.html</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/fileman/features.htm</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://www.searchandreplace.com/</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The last one looks promising! Found
a *ton* of apps on Tucows for that also:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://www.tucows.com/searchreplace95.html</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Cheers,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark</span></font></div>
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