Replace Genius - powerful find and replace

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Replace Genius - powerful find and replace

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Name: Replace Genius
Version: 4.3
Developer: RL Vision (https://www.rlvision.com)
Homepage: https://www.rlvision.com/genius/about.asp
Writes settings to: Application folder
(This program used to be shareware, but is now freeware)
Replace Genius is a free, versatile automation utility for manipulating text and data files, including Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Think of it like a Find & Replace command on steroids!

It is built to process each line according to the rules you set. With ten specialized functions and a rich set of options and filters it will let you quickly process your data to suit your unique needs.
  • Ten highly configurable processing functions: Find & Replace, Letter Casing, Insert String, Delete Section, Add Counter, Re-Number, Free Format, Move Section, Trim Space & Zero Padding
  • Works with text files, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets
  • Use <tags> to design and re-arrange your lines exactly like you want to
  • Store often used commands as Presets & Batch Replace lists for easy recall
  • Target specific sections and lines using the include filter and pre-processing filter
  • Supports Wildcards and Regular Expressions
  • Semi-automatic assisted manual edit mode for when full automation is not possible
  • Realtime preview shows the result before you change anything
  • Unlimited undo
  • Fast and optimized for heavy duty operations
  • Streamlined intuitive interface with context sentisite help
  • Batch Mode allows you to process multiple files in a single operation
Download: http://www.rlvision.com/script/download ... rtable.zip

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Very cool -- will test out in the weeks ahead. Thanks for posting.

From the same folks behind Hot Spot Studio and Snap2HTML.

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Tested: Portable. Writes settings to App folder under "\app\Settings\".

(Checked version 4.3.)

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#5 Post by smaragdus »

Replace Genius at version 4.31, changes:
v4.31 (2016-02-14)
- Fixed bugs of various severity.

Full Change Log: http://www.rlvision.com/genius/whatsnew.php.

Replace Genius is a well-designed program like all others by this developer.

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I finally got a chance to run some very batch basic search-and-replace operations to get a whole bunch of files updated. I needed to turn a copyright notice from 2015 to 2016 and this program worked beautifully, taking about 8 seconds per ~200k DOCX file. Part of me can't believe this is freeware, as that functionality will save companies a lot of time and money.

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#7 Post by webfork »

I've been testing out a lot of text replacement/automation tools, and was pleased to come back to this one's available preview and hide functions. They're very unique and very helpful.

It's somewhat crashy on Win10x64, but given some of the unique functionality, that might be worth the trouble.

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