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What's the best way to find and replace text in multiple files over FTP?
How can you search and replace text in multiple files on an FTP server?
Basically I need to change the Google Analytics information on a bunch of plain old HTML pages and I'm wondering if there is a ...
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Emacs Evil search and replace function
Emacs has a Vim emulator mode called Evil. This mode has a search-replace function that does basically the same thing as highlighting a region and running sed on it. The brilliant thing about this ...
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Delete specific number of characters after a specific string is found
I have several lines of code and I'm looking for a way to search for a specific string e.g. 'id0=' and delete it and all 10 characters after it, per line. I would prefer a way/macro/addon for ...
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How can I remove unicode characters in a Microsoft Word document?
I'm saving a Microsoft Word document as a PDF but it is warning me that there are a few problems including the fact that the document includes Unicode characters. I'm not sure what characters it is ...
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Any Repeating text/phrase finder function/software for text editor? replace/remove?
I compile my own PDF for my personal use from texts copied from other sources and other ebooks I have purchased. When I copy texts from other PDFs, the chapter title, page # and book titile appear ...
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Natively Find & Replace with wildcards in Excel
Is there a way to natively use wildcards in Find & Replace, in Excel 2010? I'd rather not install an add-on if it can be avoided.
For example: I want to be able to use a syntax similar to the ...
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Prevent inadvertent replacement in notepad++
Is there a way to make Notepad++ to ask for confirmation when replacing all instances of a string in a file or files?
This is to prevent inadvertent replacement.
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Change font of all Hebrew text
I need to use different fonts for English and Hebrew in the same document. How can I change the font of all the Hebrew text, possibly using Find-and-Replace?
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How can I find and replace multiple blocks of text in multiple documents all at once?
I tried searching for this everywhere but couldn't find any solution.
I have 100 html pages with various text to translate. I have also the translated text ready on a word document.
So what I have to ...
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Using RegEX To Prefix And Append In Notepad++
I found this question on StackOverflow. It worked great but I also need to include lines that have non-alphabet characters in it like:
some_name
some.name
And add prefixes like this:
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How can I add non-breaking space ( ) in dates using search and replace in DreamWeaver
Example:
January 1, 2012
This is the current text, but I want to change the source code to:
January 1 2012
automatically using search and replace.
There are multiple dates ...
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LibreOffice Calc - Search and replace merged cells
Is there any way to find merged cells with the Find & Replace dialog and replace the cell content in all of them?
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sed without regex
I am using GNU SED for find and replace functionality on large files(upto 2GB).
Find and replace characters can contain any characters, hence I want find and replace parameters to be treated as plain ...
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Find-And-Replace Any Selected Text
Goal: Quick find-and-replace for active selected text in any application.
Description:
I want a utility to quickly perform a predetermined find-and-replace for the current selected text in the active ...
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Is there a Sublime Text 2 equivalent to Dreamweaver's “Find and Replace > Search: Specific Tag” feature?
Is there a function within Sublime Text 2 or a plugin similar to this (besides regex)?
In this example, I wanted set the attribute border to 0 for every img tag in the document.
Or, say, I wanted ...
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Find Replace - Args out of range?
Using: GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-03-25 on allspice, modified by Debian
I am trying to do some simple find and replace. Not a big deal. I'm not even using ...
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Sublime Text 2 search and replace multiple words
I want to replace multiple words using regex in just one search accross all files. Something like this:
Find: (dyspnea)|(jugular_swelling)
Replace: (dispnea)|(turgencia_jugular)
And this would ...
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Simple find/replace for all xlsm and xlsx files in a directory
I have a directory with 20 spreadsheets. Some are xlsx and some are xlsm. I need to replace all instances of "foo", with "bar" in each sheet in each file. I'm using windows.
I'm on Windows so I don't ...
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In Windows, how do I do a mass search-replace where I search for a phrase and then copy the phrase with several different phrases?
I use Windows and I use a variety of text editors (NotePad++, Vim, etc). Any application works (since I'm willing to try any of the applications I have).
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This is what I want to search.
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how to stop microsoft word inserting smart quotes on find and replace
I'm running a find and replace in Microsot word something like:
Find highlighted text.
Replace with '^&'
but it converts the ' characters to smart quotes, even though I disabled that option in ...
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Implementing find and replace using NPPExec in Notepad++
How do we perform find and replace using NPPExec plugin in Notepad++? Any help (command/resource) in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
