Replace Studio Business Edition 7.14

A tool that easily searches through text-based files and, if you want, perform replacements with another string

searches through text-based files and can also make replacements. The program can search/replace in subdirectories and ZIP files, it can perform case sensitive searching, it can match on 'whole words' or partial words, and it can ignore 'whitespace' or not. Advanced 'file masks' and 'file filters' can be used to tune which files & folders are to be processed.

Replace Studio Business Edition is not intended for 'business' customers only. The word 'business' in the program title is used because the program is primarily oriented towards 'scripted' search (& replace) tasks that are passed to the program on the command line. One example might be a standardized search of log files that is used to generate an output report of interest. Because these types of fixed tasks are more common in a corporate or business setting, we chose to name the program 'Business Edition'.

Replace Studio Business Edition does have a graphical user interface (see below). The GUI is used to create 'script' files that contain the search/replace string(s), path(s) & file mask(s) to search, and other program options for that script. Scripts can then be recalled and run via the GUI if you like. A built-in context viewer presents search results in the context of the found string. The context viewer can also be used to manually edit the file containing a 'search hit'. Alternatively, you can launch the viewer/editor of your choice to open that file. The main window also supports drag n drop from Explorer into the 'Path/Mask' field and you can drag n drop files in the Search Results list into Explorer or an external editor that supports drag n drop.

Once a script has been created and tested you can load and run that script via the windows command line or in a .bat file.