* Editor to Find and Replace blocks in Gedcom file

[oldtimer47]

Its a long story but I would like to replace some references to sources in a Gedcom file. These are 'where used within source' so there are lots of them throughout the file. The quickest way is to do a text block find and replace so that I can find the block of lines that I need to change and replace them with a modified block.

Finding an editor that can do this and that is FREE is proving to be very difficult. Most editors will only find and replace 1 line.

I was wondering if anyone else on the Forums had done this and could suggest a suitable editor.

Many Thanks
Peter

ID:4820

[Jane]

I normally use:
http://www.nodesoft.com/searchandreplace/

Additionally, in PSPAD you can add the phReplace plug in which does multiple lines.

http://www.pspad.com/en/pspad-extensions.php?stranka=3

[tatewise]

Quick Search and Replace has many handy features including Regular Expressions for find and replace, plus batch editing, and it is FREE.
So for example the following meta-characters will find:
t tab (HT/TAB)
n new line (NL)
r car return (CR)
f form feed (FF)
a alarm (bell) (BEL)
e escape (ESC)

http://www.searchreplacetext.com

[oldtimer47]

Thanks for the replies so far.
At the moment PSPAD with the extension is my favoured option.

Peter

[GladToBeGrey]

It's worth taking a look at Notepad++, too.  It also has powerful search/replace functions, including Regular Expressions.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

[PeterR]

I think only PSPad has the significant added benefit of Jane's extensions to semi-automatically build FH functions ready to paste into Queries or other expression locations:
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... pad_editor
and
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... _functions

[oldtimer47]

Another one to add to the list is

PilotEdit Lite

The Lite version is free and can do block find and replace.

Peter