Uses For TextPression
When standard Search and
Replace won't do
Search and Replace is fine when
you're looking for an exact match, but its not so good when you are
looking for something that requires a more abstract form of
description. The cases below should give you some idea of the power
of TextPression. Bare in mind that when you create a task you
can easily store it for reuse; you can also use it as the basis of
more advanced powerful tasks.
Email address
validation and substitution
Corporate websites today contain huge
numbers of email addresses. TextPression allows you to easily locate
an email address and substitute any part of it for alternative data.
So if for example one or more people in your organisation have
changed department, you can easily update the department part of
their email addresses.
Context Sensitive
Search and Replace for coders
Search and replace in source code can
be a pain. You get the matches you want, plus a lot you don't!
TextPression can make the job a whole lot easier by allowing you to
specify alternate matches. For example if you've recently altered a
number of functions to take additional arguments, you can search in
one shot for any of the affected functions.
Get entries related
to specific actions from Log Files
When extracting information from log
files, you are rarely looking for a direct match; rather you are
looking for information which follows a particularly entry ( or
perhaps you want to specifically exclude matches that are followed
by a particular entry ). Again TextPression's simple interface makes
this easy.
And so much more...
The examples above really only
scratch the surface of what is possible with TextPression. Over the
coming months we'll be updating the site with more information on
how you can leverage the power of TextPression.
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