> This program has the potential to save you hours of time every time
> you use it. It performs mass searches and replaces on HTML files
> better than any other program.
>
> This tool can search through multiple different folders and
> thousands of files. If can change up to 10 different text strings at
> once. This program does things normally only possible with
> complicated scripting languages like Perl.
>
> This program is perfect for fixing broken URLs, changing outdated
> phone numbers, updating contact info, etc. It is designed to handle
> thousands and thousands of pages without a problem.
>
> This program is powerful and dangerous. Please only use it on your
> web sites if you have a backup. Also please take a few minutes to
> read through the Features and Basic Instructions Help sections
> before using the program. There is also Balloon Help available which
> will help you get the hang of the program in just a few minutes.
### FEATURES:
* It is designed to tackle large sites. It does not die when you
feed it 50,000 pages and more. Programs like BBEdit do die. I love
BBEdit, but it does die on large searches because of the way it
tries to tackle the problem.
* It allows you to work on multiple non-nested directories at once.
You can even be working on two different sites at the same time as
long as you have the drives mounted.
* IIt allows you to preview changes and back out ones you don't
like. At any time you can switch from the preview mode to fully
automatic mode.
* It can keep a backup of every file changed in a folder you
specify. The comment on the file shows the original location.
* You can have up to 10 different searches being processed at once.
* You can specify how deeply you want nested searches to go.
* It has an easy user interface, especially compared to the
alternatives of learning Pearl or a similar scripting language.
* You can store a hundreds of searches, name them, and pull them
back up for future use.
* It can easily be set to change only HTML files, leaving other
files untouched.
* It gives you clear progress information as it searches for folders
and changes files.
* Makes it easy to reverse the search and replace fields. A simple
click of a button can flip flop these fields.
* It can run in the background. This dramatically slows progress,
but is useful if you need to do a few other things while your
search is processing.
* It has balloon help and a built-in help section.
* It generates a full report of all the files changed in an HTML
document with clickable links to each of the files.
* It has intelligent search and replace. If you search to replace
every instance of "John" with "John Smith" and the document
already has some cases of "John Smith", most programs would give
you back "John Smith Smith". Some programs would even get stuck in
an endless loop. This program will not replace "John Smith" with
"John Smith Smith". It will only replace the instances of "John"
which are not followed with "Smith". This might seem like a small
thing, but it can be really handy.
