Actual Search & Replace 2.8.3

Actual Search & Replace 2.8.3 provides a very good supporting tool for text files. This is a software that provides search-and-replace operations across multiple text files. You can search documents for a phrase or several words, multi-line or regular expressions, and use the search engines style queries.

Actual Search & Replace displays abstracts from the searched files and highlights the search words or phrases in them. The replace facility lets you insert text before or after search occurrences, delete text, and replace text with spaces, in addition to standard text replacement.

The preliminary search, ability to undo changes and the backup feature help the user easily control the process of modifying files. The searched files can be filtered by size and last modification date. You can save reports about the found files and detailed information about the inclusions found in them. The batch replace operation allows to execute a lot of various replacements with one click. The program also supports a command-line mode.

 Major Features:

1. This powerful tool provides search and replace operations across multiple ASCII (text, HTML etc.) files.
2. Actual Search & Replace works under Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP/Server 2003/Vista operation system.
3. You can find files by specifying the path, name masks, and a query. You can search documents for a phrase or several words, multiline or regular expression and use the search engines style queries.
4. Actual Search & Replace displays abstracts from the searched files and highlights the search words/phrases in them.
5. The tool allows to find files within the previous search results.
6. Once you find the documents, you can replace, insert, and delete text in them.
7. The preliminary search feature, ability to undo the operations and files backup help users to control the files modification process.
8. Files can be filtered by their size and last modification date.
9. You can save the report about the found files and detailed information about the occurrences found in them.
10. The batch replace operation allows to execute a lot of various replacements with one click.
11. Actual Search & Replace can be used also as a command line utility.

Enhancements: Minor improvements.