Find & Replace It! is a powerful, easy to use and cross platform text file processor. Find & Replace It! allows you to perform very complex replacements inside text files.

Find & Replace It! supports the most common text encodings and handles files of any size.

Here are some key features of "Find & Replace It!":

· Can find fixed string expressions as well as wildcard and regular expressions
· Handles text encoding while displaying, reading and writing file contents, including multi bytes encodings like Unicode
· Preserves line endings while processing files
· Preserves BOM while processing Unicode files
· Allows you to perform dynamic replacements based on found expression captures
· Provides built-in processing function for dynamic replacements (e.g. convert captured expressions to lower case, Base64 encoding, Hex encoding, UTF-8 encoding, etc.)
· Provides a JavaScript like interface to customize replacements on the fly by script processing
· Displays matched expressions reports for file search/replace operations
· Full featured dynamic preview of matched expressions and replacements
· Provides tools for converting text encoding
· Provides tools for converting line endings (Windows, Unix, Macintosh, Unicode)
· Detects text encoding and line endings of files
· Provides advanced filtering options for selecting files that need to be processed, including file name filters and file path exclusion filters
· Allows you to load and save expressions to find, replacement definitions and file filters
· Handles huge files (> 10 GB)
· Regular expression editor
· Fully multithreaded for fast processing and responsiveness
· Allows you to cancel long operations
· GUI is totally modular
· Cross platform: Mac OS X >=10.5, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Ubuntu >=8.04

Limitations:

· The save feature is disabled
· Cannot replace strings directly in files
· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Update of the User Manual:
· Add documentation for manipulating the UI
· Update some screenshots
· Better documentation for using the 'Find & Replace Preview' panel
· Add a chapter about installation instructions
· Add a chapter about licensing information
· Other minor additions

· New examples of FRI files have been added. All examples have been updated, scripts have been documented, all examples of replacements are acompanied with test file for preview purpose.
· Update of the End User License Agreement
· Update of the readme file

· Fixed issues when opening FRI files when the running language is set to French
· The type of line-endings was not saved in FRI files
· It is now possible to reload the file in the preview with a given encoding
· Open/save 'Find & Replace Preview' FRI file now works properly on active preview
· Add a mention to the Qt license in the about dialog
· Fix unexpected behaviour of the preview after closing the default tab
· Add 'simple text' syntax to filters syntax (as default)
· Fixed crash with Flash on Windows
· Fix a limitation that prevents from loading some FRI files properly when the running language is not English
· Progress bars were not updated when the the windows were resized
· New version of FRI format with miscellaneous additions
· Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and enhancements