How to replace text in every unit?

[Silver Black 23]

How to replace all occourrences of a given text in ALL units of the projects? I mean: units, forms, etc., any file? I wouldn't want to do an edit/replace… for every file in my project! It's time consuming and, more important, I could forget some file.

[Ian Branch 135]

I use a tool call FAR, short for Find and Replace.

http://findandreplace.sourceforge.net

 

Its a free app and as long as your .dfm files are in text rather than  binary, works a treat.

 

HTH.

 

Ian

[Silver Black 23]

  On 2/26/2019 at 3:12 AM, Ian Branch said:

I use a tool call FAR, short for Find and Replace.

http://findandreplace.sourceforge.net

 

Its a free app and as long as your .dfm files are in text rather than  binary, works a treat.

 

HTH.

 

Ian

Thank you! I solved with GExperts grep tool. Your help is very appreciated too!

[dummzeuch 1613]

Please note that there are known limitations with GExperts Grep Search on form files. A string will not be found if one of the following conditions is met:

• A string is split into several lines (in the form file) and the search string spans a line break (Bug #49).
• A string with special characters (e.g. Umlauts) is stored as 'bla'#nnn'blub' in the form file and the search string spans this special character (Bug #112).

 

Edited February 26, 2019 by dummzeuch

[Silver Black 23]

  On 2/26/2019 at 2:28 PM, dummzeuch said:

Please note that there are known limitation with GExperts Grep Search on form files. A string will not be found if one of the following conditions is met:

• A string is split into several lines (in the form file) and the search string spans a line break (Bug #49).
• A string with special characters (e.g. Umlauts) is stored as 'bla'#nnn'blub' in the form file and the search string spans this special character (Bug #112).

 

Thank you for these important notes, I will remind of them.