HandyFile Find And Replace: Text Aid Kit

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HandyFile Find And Replace: Text Aid Kit is a simple to use search and replace tool to help you find and replace text in a number of files (plain text ANSI files, SGML documents (HTML, XML, etc.), source code and any other plain text files) with a single click thus increasing your productivity and saving many hours of manual editing that you spend daily for updating your files.

It is a great helper for web masters, software and web developers, technical writers and anyone else who needs to search and replace plain text in many files quickly and easily not requiring advanced options.

File searching, filtering and handling

• Searches files in one or more semicolon-separated folders.
• Supports plain text ANSI files. For Unicode and UTF-8 support, please consider using Text Workbench.
• Filters files by applying the search masks, which can be:
  • common wildcard masks (e.g.: *.html);
  • regular expression masks (e.g.: .+\.html).
• Supports multiple semicolon-separated search masks.
• Filters files by:
  • date of creation, access or modification;
  • size.
  • read-only attribute. Can restore the read-only attribute on the modified files.
• Creates back-up copies of files in the specified folder.
• Configurable target storage location in which the processed files are saved.
• Other minor features.

Text searching

• Can do case sensitive or insensitive searches.
• Can search for plain text (without regular expressions).
• Provides whitespace spanning options to ignore spaces, tabs and line breaks (for searches without regular expressions).
• Can search text using regular expressions.
• Provides option to edit the search text in the multiline editor thus allowing multiline searches.
• Enhancements to make writing regular expressions easier (the Regular Expression Laboratory).

Text replacing and processing

These options are divided into several subgroups.

General features

• Can replace the found text with the specified text.
• Provides an excellent Scenario engine to create batch replace job scripts which enables you to replace multiple text portions at once.

Regular Expressions

• Supports common regular expression syntax:
  • common search patterns (match any charachter, inclusive and exclusive character sets, greedy and non-greedy quantifiers etc.);
  • common replace pattrens (insert stored expression);
  • for extended regular expression pattrens (symbol to HTML entity conversion, path resolvers etc.) please consider using Text Workbench.

User interface features

• Text viewer to browse through the search results.
• Binary viewer.
• Multiline text editor to specify and search text consisting of more than one line.