program that can seach and edit text stuff

[EmperorNero]

anyone know of a good program that can search for a string in a text file and replace it with another string of words? for example, if I want to change the picture size of an <IMG> element to 50x100 from 25x50 in a web page, that program would search for any instances of WIDTH=50 HEIGHT=25 and replace it with WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=50 (<--look! my first time using the highlighter ). and if that program can search for text files within a whole directory, that would be even better.

edit: btw, I've tries search&amp;replace but found the layout unintuitive.

 

[yllus]

Windows WordPad will pretty much do this for you, one textfile at a time. Check under Edit > Replace... and chuck WIDTH=50 HEIGHT=25 into the &quot;Find What&quot; field. Put WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=50 into the &quot;Replace With&quot; field and hit Replace All. Ta da! Move on to the next file.

 

[Elledan]

If you use EditPlus, you can do this for a whole bunch of files at the same time

 

[Delusion2001]

do a search for editpad

it's a very good prog, and you can edit multiple pages at the same time

 

[Valhalla1]

umm... NOTEPAD.EXE

(if you are smart of course, and using NT 4 or 5, aka Windows 2000)

 

[RaDragon]

I second EditPlus -- it's one great text editor! With the plain HTML files I have, if I need to change <IMG SRC=&quot;foo.gif&quot;> to <IMG SRC=&quot;bar.jpg&quot;> in all 56 .html files, EditPlus will do the job nicely.

 

[EmperorNero]

I need something more powerful than notepad/wordpad.

I've tried multi-replacer, textpad, find++, bkreplacem and none of them suited me. but I really like html batch editor but it isn't free (nor can I obtain it the illegal way).

 

[tomcat]

Search and Replace worked pretty well for me.. its not super intuitive but invest a little time and it works

 

sed, you seek sed!!!

There are also about 10,000 Windows utilites that do the same thing, if CLI tools are not your bag. Check at http://www.winfiles.com.

 

[khaosspawn]

If you're working &quot;code level&quot; on HTML then Homesite is a must for ya. It can do all that you mentioned.