http://cafe.elharo.com/uncategorized/regular-expressions/ Longer than a blog; shorter than a book Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://cafe.elharo.com/uncategorized/regular-expressions/#comment-241900 Christophe Strobbe Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:40:27 +0000 http://cafe.elharo.com/uncategorized/regular-expressions/#comment-241900 JEdit has been my favourite editor for several years. It's search and replace functions are really nice, but there's one thing you need to be careful about: when you replace text in files, the editor loads all the modified files. If the number of files is very large, this behaviour can choke the editor. So always perform a hypersearch to check the number of files before you start batch-replacing strings. For string replacements across hundreds of files, there are other tools; batch replacement across large numbers of files also works quite will in Eclipse. JEdit has been my favourite editor for several years. It’s search and replace functions are really nice, but there’s one thing you need to be careful about: when you replace text in files, the editor loads all the modified files. If the number of files is very large, this behaviour can choke the editor. So always perform a hypersearch to check the number of files before you start batch-replacing strings. For string replacements across hundreds of files, there are other tools; batch replacement across large numbers of files also works quite will in Eclipse.

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