FamousWhy Editor:
"Find" feature may be familiar for most of the computer users. By default, Windows operating system is bringing a decent "Find" option when is about searching for files and folders. Also, Microsoft Word and Excel are offering "Find" and "Find and Replace" features when is about words and text structures.

But what if you want to find and replace a particular text from a huge random file? (a system file for example) or if you want to find a text inside a Unicode file? Find & Replace It was specially designed to solve this problem.

Find & Replace It is a powerful, cross-platform text file processor. It allows you to perform complex batch replacements inside text files of any size. It supports regular expression syntax and dozens of encodings.

It can batch processing the encoding of files, as well as style of end-of-line. It provides scripting abilities. The scripting interface allows you to transform on the fly the replacement text on every match.

Find & Replace It incorporates some interesting and useful features. Let's have a short look over the most important ones for a better understanding of what Find & Replace It can offer:

- Find and replace across files
- Can search fixed string expressions as well as wildcard and regular expressions

- Handles text encoding while displaying, reading and writing file contents, including multi bytes encodings like Unicode
- Preserves line endings while processing files
- Preserves BOM while processing Unicode files
- Allows you to perform dynamic replacements based on found expression captures
- Provides built-in processing function for dynamic replacements (e.g. convert captured expressions to lower case, Base64 encoding, Hex encoding, UTF-8 encoding, etc.)
- Provides a JavaScript like interface to customize replacements on the fly by script processing

- Displays matched expressions reports for file search/replace operations
- Can convert end-of-lines (Windows, Unix, Macintosh, Unicode)
- Provides advanced filtering options for selecting files that need to be processed, including file name filters and file path exclusion filters
- Allows you to load and save expressions to find, replacement definitions and file filters

- Handles huge files (> 10 GB)
- Can save your file filters, regular expressions, replacement patterns, preview settings, etc.

Why is Find & Replace It famous?

Find & Replace It is famous because it is a powerful and useful text file processor. It can search, find and replace text inside text files of any size and it offers some interesting and unique features. Find & Replace It is a cross-platform application, supporting Windows, Unix and Macintosh platforms.

 

 

Publisher: Philippe Docourt

 

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