Hello,

I need a Find and Replace utility that works across multiple files. I found
many such utilities, yet I need it to ask me, if I want to change an
occurrence or not. Basically, the utility will show me the text, then asks
me if I want to change it. Please let me know if you are aware of such a
tool. Thanks.

T.I.

Notepad will do that for plain text files. What files are you working with?

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"Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:S93ui.675$V53.256@trnddc08...
> Hello,
>
> I need a Find and Replace utility that works across multiple files. I
> found many such utilities, yet I need it to ask me, if I want to change an
> occurrence or not. Basically, the utility will show me the text, then
> asks me if I want to change it. Please let me know if you are aware of
> such a tool. Thanks.
>
> T.I.
>

"Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:S93ui.675$V53.256@trnddc08...
>
> I need a Find and Replace utility that works across multiple files. I
> found many such utilities, yet I need it to ask me, if I want to change an
> occurrence or not. Basically, the utility will show me the text, then
> asks me if I want to change it. Please let me know if you are aware of
> such a tool. Thanks.
>


This is a weird answer, but Dreamweaver can search and replace multiple text
files and can preview and report all changes. I have used it myself for
doing this with text files that had nothing to do with any website I was
making.

There is a free trial of Dreamweaver CS3 if you want to use it for this.

ss.

"Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:S93ui.675$V53.256@trnddc08...
> Hello,
>
> I need a Find and Replace utility that works across multiple files. I
> found many such utilities, yet I need it to ask me, if I want to change an
> occurrence or not. Basically, the utility will show me the text, then
> asks me if I want to change it. Please let me know if you are aware of
> such a tool. Thanks.
>


I have just checked and EditPad Pro can do this too when you select the
option to search all open files. There are different buttons on the saerch
oanel to search and replace in many ways.

I think that the free EditPad Lite has the same search features, but you
will need Pro for searching binary files.

http://www.editpadpro.com/

ss.

I create and edit my website in Publisher 2000. It left justifies the
webpages and in order to center all of the html pages in just a click of the
mouse I use ReplaceInFiles. It's a free program that is a must have on my
list.

http://www.emurasoft.com/index.htm


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:S93ui.675$V53.256@trnddc08...
> Hello,
>
> I need a Find and Replace utility that works across multiple files. I
> found many such utilities, yet I need it to ask me, if I want to change an
> occurrence or not. Basically, the utility will show me the text, then
> asks me if I want to change it. Please let me know if you are aware of
> such a tool. Thanks.
>
> T.I.
>