Search files with smart queries as with Google, replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. The batch replace operation easily updates hundreds of different links in several files. Extremely fast, easy to use, with excellent help.
Version: 8.1Advanced Find and Replace is exactly what the name implies. It's fast, easy to use, and a great time-saver for programmers and Webmasters in particular.
License: Free To Try $29.99
Operating System: Windows
Homepage: www.abacre.com
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This powerful utility lets you perform text searches on your local computer as if you were using an Internet search engine. It features support for operators that allow you to specify phrases, words to insist on (+), and words to ignore (-). You can easily apply filespec, date, and size filters to speed up the search.
The program also allows you to replace simple or multiline strings.
Specify your search-and-replace strings, then choose the action you'd like to take: delete the search string, insert text before or after it, or simply replace it. You can even apply multiple changes to large groups of files in a single operation and use optional confirmation if you need to be more selective. Excellent documentation is included.
Version 8.1: Added new shortcuts for calling an editor and for closing the program.
Version 8.0: Added Microsoft Office 2016 support and improved Windows 10 compatibility.
Version 7.8.1: Corrected several minor Windows 8 compatibility issues.
Version 6.2: Advanced Find and Replace starts more faster and improved Windows 7 and Vista compatibility.
Version 6.1: Improved language file detection; updated language files.
Version 5.2: Added new Shell Association button and few other improvements.
Version 4.1: * Feature: new option: Search In Hidden Files. * Feature: new option: Search In Hidden Folders.
Version 3.0: * Feature: Search in list of files. * Feature: Search in Results. * Feature: User Interface has now different themes. * Feature: new Choose Masks window simplifying mask selection. * Feature: new Choose Paths window simplifying path selection.
Version 2.3: Feature: Find command now may search using regular expressions (see Find tab of Options window). Feature: Possibility to evaluate expressions: you may transform text into lower case, upper case, add or subtract numbers and so on. Feature: Preview works now with using Up and Down keyboard buttons. Feature: Added new command line parameters -mask and -path. Read more: http://www.abacre.com/afr/manual/commandline.htm Feature: New parameter: Force Read Only files. Feature: New option: Include File Name into Search Scope. Feature: New option: Handle Unicode files (with ASCII chars only) Feature: Search and replace in MS Excel macros and formulas. Feature: Preview panel now fully works for Excel files and partially for Word files. Feature: Ctrl+F will find text in preview panel. Feature: Replace until found option for Batch replace. Bug fixed: Focus was on search path. Now AFR has focus on Search Query field. Bug fixed: AFR could not display file sizes greater than 2GB. Bug fixed: Could not rename file when new file name already existed. Bug fixed: It was not possible to use {nnnn} format in replace part of regular expression. Bug fixed: Counter of found files was not incremented on found MS Office files.