Rune wrote:

> Some text editors support multiple-file search and replace. This function
> could almost, but not quite, do what I need. One of the problems is that the
> chunks of code I need to search and replace are dozens of lines long, which
> is usually not supported by text-editors.

Perhaps Arachnophilia supports this (no personal experience).
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html

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"Rune" <run### [at] inamecom> wrote in message
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<SNIP>

Dunno about vb-script - why not give PERL a try? Okay, a bit of a learning
curve (although I'm sure you would find help very forthcoming), but at the
end you've learnt a nice, multi-purpose, portable lang.

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"Tom Melly" wrote:
> Dunno about vb-script - why not give PERL a try? Okay, a bit
> of a learning curve (although I'm sure you would find help
> very forthcoming), but at the end you've learnt a nice,
> multi-purpose, portable lang.

I think I once decided with myself that if I were ever to learn a real
programming language I'd start with Pascal or Delphi or what it's called...

Why do you think PERL would be the best choice?

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"Chris Colefax" wrote:
>
> You can download VB script documentation from Microsoft

Do you have a direct link? :)

> if you have installed Microsoft Office 2000

I don't.

> More importantly, you can indeed use a small VBScript from the
> command line to perform search-and-replaces on multiple files.
> If you like, I can email you the script I use myself for this...

Thanks, please do! :)

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"Margus Ramst" wrote:
> Try NoteTab (http://www.notetab.com)

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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"Gilles Tran" wrote:
> Perhaps Arachnophilia supports this (no personal experience).
> http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html

Thanks, I'll have a look.

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:20:10 +0100, Rune wrote:
>"Tom Melly" wrote:
>> Dunno about vb-script - why not give PERL a try? Okay, a bit
>> of a learning curve (although I'm sure you would find help
>> very forthcoming), but at the end you've learnt a nice,
>> multi-purpose, portable lang.
>
>I think I once decided with myself that if I were ever to learn a real
>programming language I'd start with Pascal or Delphi or what it's called...
>
>Why do you think PERL would be the best choice?

Despite the fact that it's an acronym, it's actually spelt either Perl or 
perl.

It's a good choice because it is designed precisely for extracting and 
formatting text and has many powerful features aimed at just that purpose.
In fact, the name itself stands for "practical extraction and reporting 
language" (not "pathologically eclectic rubbish lister" as some would
claim.)

For the same reasons, Delphi would be a poor choice.  Pascal is a notoriously
weak language for doing real work, and it has abysmal support for string
manipulation.  Even C is better, and C's string support sucks too.

Somewhere around here I even have the global search-and-replace script
that you need, believe it or not.

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"Rune" <run### [at] inamecom> wrote in message
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>
> I think I once decided with myself that if I were ever to learn a real
> programming language I'd start with Pascal or Delphi or what it's
called...
>
> Why do you think PERL would be the best choice?
>

1. No compilation needed, so very fast to prototype
2. Regular expressions support built-in (perfect for your needs)
3. It's free
4. Cross-platform - no need to rewrite code for diff. o/s's
5. CGI
6. IMHO a fairly shallow learning curve.

The main criticisms against it are that it's slow and obfusticated.

Well, it may be slower than a compiled lang., but unless you are doing
high-end math, I doubt you'd notice.

As for obfusticated, that's up to the coder. The reason (IMHO) that it has
this reputation is that you can code like this:

if($value > 10){
    print $value;
}

which is clear. But the same lines can be written as:

print $value if($value > 10);

which, IMHO, is not. Also, regex can look like line noise, but that's regex
for you, and it's still damn useful.

I'm not suggesting that PERL is perfect for all tasks, but for text and file
processing it's a great tool.

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"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
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>
> Despite the fact that it's an acronym, it's actually spelt either Perl or
> perl.
>

To which I reply either:

a) I knew that, honest injun guv'
b) ... but that's how I spelt it.

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"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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sort of still on this topic - here's a good article I came across today on
the perl website:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html

It's not really about perl, but about the notion of advocacy.

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