Question

i have some text files in a pre-defined directory, the files end with *.edi Each of them refers in one separate line within itself:

data_file   file_n.data 

I have to convert this line in every .edi file to sth like

data_file   'another_directory/file_n.data' 

i will add ‘another_directory/ and ‘ in the end, because the data will be in another directory. and I have such 200 .edi files files, making it tedious to handle them manually! any help from regexp? I use UltraEdit engine for regexp by the way.

a_dir/    file1.edi    file2.edi    file3.edi    ... 

and each file refers in one line:

data file   file_n.data 

becomes:—>

data_file   'another_directory/file_n.data' 

Answer 1

Just do a Replace in Files from the Search menu, using Perl Regular Expression Engine:

Find:

^(\s*data file\s+)(.+)$ 

Replace:

\1'another_directory/\2' 

In Files/Types:

*.edi 

Directory:

<whatever the directory with all your edi files is>     

(tested in UltraEdit, works for me)