WINDOWS GREP PROGRAM WINDOWS

+ You can (optionally) write files changed by a replacement operation to a backup directory and preserve original file time/date stamps during replacements. + Replacements, including those in script and binary operations, can be visualized in context before they are made. For example, the 'temp' environment variable can be referred using the string '%%envvar=temp%%'. + The program can read the environment variables on the host computer and use them in a search/replace using the '%%envvar=' syntax. + An 'Ignore Whitespace' function can find a phrase regardless of where line breaks may lie. + Text can be prepend or appended to a file. + Text files can be reformatted w/ word wrap at a specified column. + Search and Replace can also launch associated programs on 'found' files, e.g., launch your web browser if the search hit occurs in

Links off the External Editors page provide information for using TextPad (Helios Software, Multi-Edit (American Cybernetics, UltraEdit (IDM Computer Solutions, Hex Workshop (BreakPoint Software, and Notepad++ (Sourceforge - Notepad++ ). Alternatively, Search and Replace can be configured to launch with separate external editors for search hits in Search and Replace automatically detects if the file being searched is text and, if not, will automatically view binary files using our freeware companion utility HexView. You can jump from one 'search hit' to the next and edit text files. + The internal 'context' viewer allows you to view your search results in context with the surrounding text. + An HTML Mode that automatically makes plain text -> html special character substitutions during search &/or replace operations. + File operations can be carried out on the files in the search results list. If you have a color printer you can print the html file to obtain a color coded output. + Output in the Search and Replace 'Results List' can be sent to your printer, saved to a file (your choice of delimiters), or viewed in your web browser via an automatically generated htm file. This allows special processing of RTF codes, HTML codes, Unicode files, with a lookup table created by the user along with several supplied by us. + Scripts can be applied to Search/replace strings in the Binary Mode dialog. + Unicode files are detected automatically for search and replacing. You can also do simple searches in the list (press F3) and you can also limit follow-up search &/or replace to only those files currently listed in the list.

WINDOWS GREP PROGRAM WINDOWS

+ The program can search-replace the Windows Clipboard. + Search and replace operations can be case sensitive or not, they can span multiple files via multiple file masks and filter settings, and they can span more than one line. A history of features by version and an overview of proposed new features are also available. Here are some of the basic features of Search and Replace.

Windows grep program