Fooling Around

Replace in Files is updated to keep up with the time as well as implement a feature that appeared to be convenient.

What’s new in this build?

• Migration to Visual Studio .NET 2005 compiler, which is pretty cool itself since the compiler better optimizes the code, and in addition the binary is self sufficient and independent on C++ runtime which results in lighter distributable
• Switch to Unicode version of runtime, all internal processing is Unicode and thus international characters are processed in a reliable fashion
• Full support for Ignore Case, Mutiline, Global Match and Regular Expression features; all four might be used in any combination, all are supported
• Fixed minor bugs
• Removed trial version string insertion, this build is completely unlocked

Miscellaneous

Some time ago I noticed a discussion on a blog about a tool to perform automated regular expression based replace with files in Unicode format. It is possible with this utility Alax.Info Replace In Files used together with Scripting.FileSystemObject’s TextStream (see OpenAsTextStream) under JScript scripting host. Have fun!

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