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Hi Michel, > Is there any advantage to using [TextPipe] over using Perl (much like Unix > 'sed' but far, FAR, more powerful) ? Real question by the way, not a > troll. TextPipe is easier to learn than Perl, and has an easy to use GUI. It has a real advantage for adhoc or one-off jobs - you spend time getting results rather than learning to use the tools. I agree that Perl is a very powerful tool, but it provides far more power than the average user requires. You can embed the PerlScript scripting engine into TextPipe (in addition to VBScript, JScript, REXXscript etc), so you can still have the ease of use of TextPipe with Perl's power. One major advantage of TextPipe is that it does not generate intermediate files between each operation. So if you apply 200 search/replaces to a 2 GB file, you only need 2 GB of free space for the result file (after which the original file can be deleted). Regards, Simon -- mailto:launch@o... http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au TextPipe Search/Replace - The Webmaster Text Transformation Workbench Other products: LFNit!, DirSize, BabyShield, DirDate, ZeroIn, Arc Menu, ClipSize, Clean 'n' Go *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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