Replace Chunk of Text in Multiple Files

RedTen · 20 May 2010 at 10:28

Howdy

I need some help.. I need to find and replace the same chunk of text on multiple lines in multiple ini files.

E.g.

One
Two
Three

Four
Five

I want to keep Four and Five and remove/replace the rest.

All of the files are in \directory\user\file.ini and I need to ammend them for every user.

Hopefully this makes sense. Any suggestions?

I've tried various find and replace programs but they only seem to do one line.

Thanks

gord · 20 May 2010 at 10:51

Notepad++ and Dreamweaver have find and replace functions that will let perform that operation across all of those ini files.

Tripnologist · 20 May 2010 at 10:54

Hopefully someone shall come along and offer a better alternative, but I've used Actual Search and Replace in the past to S&R multi lines.

http://www.divlocsoft.com/

Though if it's the exact same lines on each file, couldn't you just use notepad++ and do it three times, removing one line at a time?

RedTen · 20 May 2010 at 11:34

gord said:
Notepad++ and Dreamweaver have find and replace functions that will let perform that operation across all of those ini files.

Thanks

I've downloaded the CS5 trial and its worked well. I couldn't find and replace with a blank though. So I've just used a random word then replaced that with another F&R software I tried.

Tripnologist · 20 May 2010 at 12:09

You're saying that DW CS5 actually works with multiline s&r?
I only have CS4 and it doesn't do multiline at all.

gord · 20 May 2010 at 12:20

What do you guys mean when talking about multi-line? I think I'm on CS3 and it definitely lets me select multiple lines of html to replace with other lines of code, and or blank lines if I wanted to.

It doesn't work when your lines aren't consecutive, you just have to do a new S&R for each completely separate chunk/line.

Tripnologist · 20 May 2010 at 13:53

gord said:
It doesn't work when your lines aren't consecutive, you just have to do a new S&R for each completely separate chunk/line.

That's exactly what I mean. Whereas Actual S&R will find any chunk of text you want, regardless of how large or how many line breaks are in it.

gord · 20 May 2010 at 14:30

Ah I see, I don't think I've ever encountered the need to replace chunks like that.

RedTen · 20 May 2010 at 18:49

Just double checked..

Its worked but my code didnt contain any blank lines. I'll see if it works with blank lines tomorrow when i'm in the office.