Text replacement program ?

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As SCR is spyware of the nastiest kind
(http://www.soft-central.net/scr.php) I need another text search/replace
program. I've looked at the PW site and the first program (Info-rapid)
is huge for just the one task, while the second (ReplaceEm) is not at
all intuitive.
All the program has to do is do a search/replace in one file that could
be as large as 200meg. No multiple files, no complex strings.
Anyone know of anything ?

Thanks,
P.
 
As SCR is spyware of the nastiest kind
(http://www.soft-central.net/scr.php) I need another text search/replace
program. I've looked at the PW site and the first program (Info-rapid)
is huge for just the one task, while the second (ReplaceEm) is not at
all intuitive.
All the program has to do is do a search/replace in one file that could
be as large as 200meg. No multiple files, no complex strings.
Anyone know of anything ?

Thanks,
P.
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Have a look at EDXOR http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware/
 
As SCR is spyware of the nastiest kind
(http://www.soft-central.net/scr.php) I need another text search/replace
program. I've looked at the PW site and the first program (Info-rapid)
is huge for just the one task, while the second (ReplaceEm) is not at
all intuitive.
All the program has to do is do a search/replace in one file that could
be as large as 200meg. No multiple files, no complex strings.
Anyone know of anything ?
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GSAR, General Search and Replace is a small, simple console program
that will do what you describe.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsar.htm
 
Thanks all - I'll take a look at GSAR in particular tomorrow.
The problem isn't the actual operation, it's the size of the text file.
Opening a 200meg text file and still having a functional machine is
beyond a lot of computers - SCR (and GSAR by first look) does not need
you to actually open the file to do it's job. Apologies for not being
clearer.

P.
 
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P. said:
Thanks all - I'll take a look at GSAR in particular tomorrow.
The problem isn't the actual operation, it's the size of the text file.
Opening a 200meg text file and still having a functional machine is
beyond a lot of computers - SCR (and GSAR by first look) does not need
you to actually open the file to do it's job. Apologies for not being
clearer.
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With my PIII 733MHz, 1GB SDRAM, 7200RPM 8MB cache hard disk and during
other "normal" PC usage, GSAR managed to convert all "a"'s to "b" on a
121MB zip file in under ten seconds (468374 occurrences).

Should do the job pretty quickly!
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