[Tutor] SUPER NEWB: basic search and replace

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Sat Sep 2 01:04:38 CEST 2006


>I have a large volume of files to change so I need to
> automate the search and replace. I'll be replacing
> bits of text with other bits of text. This is working
> for now but I'd like to know how a real programmer
> would do it. 

A "real programmer" would use the right tool for the job, 
hence he/she would use sed!

Not re-inventing the wheel is part of being a "real 
programmer"

http://www.guidenet.net/resources/programmers.html

:-)

Alan G.



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