String-O-Matic

String-O-Matic is an easy-to-use application that aims to help computer programmers perform search and replace operations of sequences of characters in multiple files.

When you need to work with large projects that have many source code files, it becomes useful to have an utility that could save you time by executing various string operations.

Not only does the application searches and replaces words from one or more files, but it also performs them on filenames as well, thus automizing the process.

String-O-Matic lets you initiate case-sensitive or case-insensitive searches and the 'whole word' feature can be used to reject matches found inside a word. You have the possibility of previewing the changes right before they are made using the search-only option. Optionally, you can use question marks and asterisks 'wildcards' in your searches.

Once you have made some changes in the source file, you can rest assured that you won't lose your data since the application renames the old file and stores it as a temporary file. While this action might take some of your hard drive space if you are working with large files, it sure is worth it. As soon as no errors occur during the process of writing and verifying data, the temporary backup file gets deleted, otherwise it is restored and the error is reported.

In order to fix files with bare carriage returns and line-feeds, as well as backwards line-breaks you can use the built-in tool that normalizes line-breaks. Plus you can reduce file size by trimming whitespaces from the end of each line.

String-O-Matic is a professional program that helps you accomplish your programming tasks in due time and it is very fast to respond to commands. It contains a detailed Help file that describes all its features, a tutorial and a setup assistant that can guide you through the project's configuration.