Supercharge Your Search Skills with Find & Replace in the World’s Best Text Editor. Join us on Nov 25, 2024, 10 AM CT.

We’re continuing our masterclass series with another staple feature every user should utilize in UltraEdit—find and replace. 

Find and replace in files is a must-know search option that allows you to search for strings or text within multiple files contained in a directory. Take a guided tutorial on the many features and options available to significantly simplify replace operations. 

In this webinar you can expect to:

• Learn the basics of Find and Replace / Find in Files
• Learn how to search across massive files and make bulk edits in seconds.
• Optimize operations with techniques such as regular expressions
• Discover use cases for various applications (DB, SQL, EDI)

In this webinar UltraEdit experts, Ben Schwenk and Ian Barker, explain how to adeptly utilize UE’s find and replace has to offer. We will also explore the most common use cases and hopefully you get to apply it to your workflow as well.

This webinar has concluded. If you missed it,  you can scroll down and watch the replay or skim through the highlights.

Replay

Webinar Highlights

The following is a curation of the sections present in the webinar. Feel free to click on the links to jump straight to that section.

• Introduction
  Take some time to meet your presenters and understand why they chose this topic for the webinar.
• Handy Quick Find Shortcuts + Basics of Find and Replace
  Take a quick review of the fundamental features available to you for UE’s Quick Find and the more complete Find and Replace dialog. Learn how to filter by string, how to deftly select through multiple strings, and more in this section.
• Configuring Regular Find and Replace
  Configure and remap your find and replace dialogs shortcuts to make it faster and easier to access. Also in this section: How to maximize usage of the command palette to make it easier to find and open files.
• Changing the scope of Find and Replace
  Set the bounds and parameters of where your search and replace happens. Whether it’s on the same line or column, or if it’s on a number of files, learn how to change these behaviors in this section.
• UltraEdit’s Filtering Options
  If you’re trying to hide all lines with certain strings or prompts (e.g. in a database that logs all successful and unsuccessful API calls), you can see how you can filter out specific lines depending on the presence of strings in this section of the webinar.
• List Lines Containing String
  Counterpart of the filter feature that allows you to open and save a separate file with all the string occurrences of your search. Learn how to initiate and execute the option in this section.
• First Q&A Break
  Take a listen to what your co-users had to say and ask about the webinar. Some clarifications about shortcuts, a bit of banter around RegEx, and overall some great engagement in the first Q&A break.
• Replace and Replace in Files + Using Preserve Case in a SQL file
  Take a look at how a find/replace is done in UltraEdit—both on an active file, a handful of files, and even on whole folders’ worth of files. Learn how to set certain parameters and target files for your operations.
  Plus a bonus of a more niche feature that can help you have case-sensitive data.
• Interactive Live Results
  See how find all results of certain strings across multiple files and open them simultaneously in one convenient pseudo-file. This makes it easier to open multiple files and look at the files—but only on the sections relevant to your search to make it both faster and easier to edit.
• Second Q&A Break
  Second set of questions from the live audience. Some questions here about the scope of UltraEdit vs UltraFinder vs UltraFTP. There’s also various questions on UE versions and feature availability

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