Even the "Code References" tool from FoxPro lets you do a global search and

replace over multiple files...

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Literally about 10 years ago, I'm pretty sure this list suggested a tool

that I used to update several text files in a common folder; it was a big

"replace text 123 with 456" kind of thing. But alas, my memory is failing

me and I can't recall what the tool was called.

Anybody know of such a tool to handle large search/replace across several

text files in a same folder or even perhaps cascading tree of folders?

tia,

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Yes it does.

I use the "Code References" tool from FoxPro a lot. I stopped using the

global search and replace because it can destroy the files. There may be

a way to make it work, but I manually go through the list of files now

and it works well.

On 10/29/2018 2:50 PM, juergen@wondzinski.de wrote:

> Even the "Code References" tool from FoxPro lets you do a global search and

> replace over multiple files...

>

>

>

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> mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com

> Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2018 22:18

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> Betreff: [NF] Tool for editing multiple files for huge search/replace

> operation

>

> Literally about 10 years ago, I'm pretty sure this list suggested a tool

> that I used to update several text files in a common folder; it was a big

> "replace text 123 with 456" kind of thing. But alas, my memory is failing

> me and I can't recall what the tool was called.

>

> Anybody know of such a tool to handle large search/replace across several

> text files in a same folder or even perhaps cascading tree of folders?

>

> tia,

> --Mike

>

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On 2018-10-29 20:27, Ken McGinnis wrote:

> Yes it does.

>

> I use the "Code References" tool from FoxPro a lot. I stopped using

> the global search and replace because it can destroy the files. There

> may be a way to make it work, but I manually go through the list of

> files now and it works well.

I had the same experience as you years ago, Ken, with it screwing up

files. Never trusted the global replace after that.

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And, BTW, that's just a 3Liner in VFP:

FOR i = 1 TO ADIR(aFiles, "*.txt")

STRTOFILE(STRTRAN(FILETOSTR(aFiles(i,1)), "OldText", "NewText"),

aFiles(i,1))

ENDFOR

Or, maybe for easier disassembly:

FOR i = 1 TO ADIR(aFiles, "*.txt")

cFile = aFiles(i,1)

? cFile

cContent = FILETOSTR(cFile)

cContent = STRTRAN(cContent, "OldText", "NewText", <Several Options

here>)

STRTOFILE(cContent, cFile)

ENDFOR

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