Search & Replace—Discovered a great little program for searching and replacing text in one or more files. I needed to convert the case of all the text in a column in a table. I tried using my HTML editor, a free program called 1stPage. It has a regular expression search and replace capability but there's almost no documentation about how to use the replace string. After much thrashing, I figured out a way to make it work, using the % sign and counting the number of characters before the search string regex. However, I couldn't figure out how to do anything with the replacement string, such as convert upper to lower case.

While searching for clues to the syntax I came across a great little program called Search & Replace. The program can be downloaded for free, although that version is severely crippled, allowing only 5 operations before disallowing any replacements. It's a steal for $25.
posted by Bruce Wright at 1:41 PM #