I'm looking for a program that....

fog

thought it might be a good idea for a thread also

I'm after something that does multiple search and replace, over multiple files..the text to search text is from a pre-defined text file (a list of memory locations in my case)

I want to disassemble a few c64 things and assume it'd be quicker just to grab a list of the standard locations , to fill in some basic comments.

Hairy

Have you tried fart?

fog

partly does it, like more.. I could make a batch file and keep re-calling it , but I'd rather it just loaded it into mem once

mrmessy

Hairy wrote: »

Have you tried fart?

If that doesn't work, try Scrote.

mrmessy

Sorry, I made that up.

Hairy

I've never used it myself, I just liked the name :)

cole

On windows wingrep is very useful.
Something similar is searchmonkey on linux.

fog

thanks, close but not 100% what I'd like.

AndyC

How is the file of changes formatted? It's probably be easiest to just write a PowerShell script to do it.

fog

ascii source file, surprised no one has done it though, where it can take multiple search/replace things out of a file and apply them to the file to change. hence why I looked for something.. and when I've asked about something, people here come up with good recommendations (e.g. winspy++)

I can just make a batchfile calling the thing again n again with the few things.

AndyC

It's probably because the "Replace X with Y" needs to be in some defined format. And if you have the ability to format data like that, you're probably equally capable of just scripting it.