Batch edit text files - Search and Replace in multiple files at the same time

Batch Text Replacer - Search and replace text in multiple files

Batch editing of text files

Quickly and easily edit multiple text files simultaneously

With Batch Text Replacer (formerly Batch Text Replacer), you have a powerful tool at hand to edit multiple text files simultaneously. The program contains a variety of powerful features to adjust the contents of text files as needed. For example, whole sections within a text can be replaced, inserted or removed. Furthermore, you can add or remove line breaks, change the encoding of text files using the integrated text converter and much more. All functions can be combined and saved as a template for reuse.

The built-in backup function allows you to reverse the changes if necessary. By using the integrated file search of the program, files can be searched for certain keywords in advance, allowing you to narrow down the text files to be edited in a preselection (additionally to the separately usable filter).

Edit many text files at once

Flexibly and clearly edit text, lines or whole sections of text in thousands of files at once

Find text in files

Contains a powerful search tool with many filters, regular expressions and export options for search results

Comprehensive functions for editing text

For example, replace, insert or remove rows, line breaks or text blocks etc.

Use filters to accurately control the use

Restrict the use to certain areas through the use of flexible, nestable filters.

With Batch Text Replacer you can:

clearly presented search and replace text in multiple files at once
also batch edit larger text files (up to a size of 40 MB and two million lines)
save the settings made as profile for reuse
edit specific sections of text files (for example, replace, move or swap sections within a text)
perform line operations - edit lines in a text or within text files e.g., number, indent, replace, insert, swap, move or remove lines
group functions and apply filter or higher-order functions to them

search many files for occurrences of a particular term and further process or export the result list, or copy it to the clipboard
search and replace multiple text phrases at once using CSV files
change the encoding of text files (e.g., convert UTF-8 to ANSI)
perform text edits using regular expressions and variables
use the integrated batch mode to perform text operations via a script file
preview the impact of each action
undo changes made using the integrated zip backup
apply extensive filters to limit the files to be processed (e.g., based on file size or encoding)

Versatile text editing functions

The batch processing solution contains many useful functions for flexibly editing multiple text files. For example, for searching and replacing text passages, you have several tools at your disposal; among others you can use a CSV file for this task. By being able to combine all functions together in any order, you can perform very complex text operations with Batch Text Replacer.

The effect of the changes will be shown in the preview in real time. This allows an examination of the result in advance. Changed text sections can be highlighted in color for clarity.

Batch Text Replacer containing much more text editing functions than an ordinary text replacer
The case of text sections can be changed as desired
Search and replace by using CSV files
Search and replace multiple terms at once
Entries of an imported list can be inserted line by line at any position
Support for PERL-compatible regular expressions
Integrated text converter to change the encoding of text files (e.g., convert UTF-8 to ANSI)
Remove, modify, or add newline characters
Text editing functions can be combined arbitrarly

Special functions for editing lines

Batch Text Replacer - apply functions only to certain lines

Batch Text Replacer contains many features and powerful filters for editing lines. Using the line filter, lines may be excluded from editing or be exclusively processed. For example, you can remove all lines that begin with a pound sign or a slash in all text files added to edit. Furthermore, it is possible to move a defined range of lines or lines with specific properties to any position or to edit e.g., indent these lines exclusively.

For advanced users, additional options for the flexible editing of lines are available through the use of variables and regular expressions. The use of variables allows, among other things, to store two groups of lines in individually named variables in order to insert these two variables combined at a certain location into the text.

Extensive options for filtering text, text blocks and lines

Batch Text Replacer includes multiple tools to restrict the text to be edited. The text area to be processed can be precisely defined by entering a start and end criterion. This is helpful, for example, in order to replace only the text between two HTML tags. You can use the "Repeat" option to process all subsequent areas that meet the specified criteria. Furthermore, it is possible to exclude files, text areas or lines with certain characteristics from the processing, such as lines that begin with a number or a certain term. Area limiter and filters can be nested across multiple levels.

Functions can be applied to all matching areas (e.g., HTML or XML elements)
Numerous types of filters: file filter, text filter, line filter, variable filter, area limiter and variable content filter
Sections to be processed within a text can be narrowed down exactly
Filters are flexible nestable with each other

Examples of use and step-by-step guides

Search and replace text in multiple files

For Word documents: Word Text Replacer

Note: Batch Text Replacer is intended exclusively for editing plain text files as .txt, .csv, .xml, .html files. Use Word Text Replacer to replace text in Word documents such as .doc, .docx, .rtf files, and so on. For example, you can replace an address, telephone number, links or references to embedded documents in multiple Word files at once with Word Text Replacer. more...