text files: editor which can save a find/replace "profile"?

[ZippyDan]

if any of you read my other thread, then you will know i am working with a legacy inventory/billing system that outputs lots of text files.

a certain process requires a worker to edit many of these text files with predictable edits, as in: always replace A with B, C with D, and E with F.

right now, they do this manually (actually finding A and typing out B). I'm going to turn them on to the Find/Replace option, but this still requires a lot of work on each document. It would be great if I could find a program that could save a "profile" with a list of Find/Replace's to perform

A -> B
C -> D
E -> F

and then the user could just apply this profile to each text file.

anyone know of any such program? I'm looking at notepad++ right now...

 

[armstrda]

Why not use a script? You could do this easily in a batch file.

Here's a good resource for you:
http://ss64.com/nt/munge.html

 

[armstrda]

Just realized that munge was only from NT4. What a shame. Anyway, you can record macros in textpad to do this. I'm sure you could do the same in Notepad++.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

There may be switches you can use with notepad to do this