Text Conversion Programs -- Techniques & Resources

• Multiple-File Search and Replace Utilities by Keith Soltys
• TextPipe Pro: Review by Mike Gunderloy
• TextPipe: Review by Bernadette Houghton
• Macro Tool to Search and Replace Portions of Text, by Jennifer Lin (PDF: 15K)
• SDLX 2005: How to perform a Global find and Replace (PDF: 124K)
• ClusterBased Find and Replace by Robert C. Miller and Alisa M. Marshall (PDF: 120K)
• sed: Search and Replace! by Heike Jurzik (PDF: 214K)
• Strom's Productivity Tool Shed by David Strom
• Using Find and Replace in Word
• Finding and replacing characters using wildcards (Microsoft Word) by Graham Mayor
• Another Useful Wildcard Search by Riccardo Schiaffino
• How to use wildcard and format searches in MSWord to make sure all your numbers are formatted correctly by Riccardo Schiaffino

DataMystic White Papers:

• Converting Mainframe reports (PDF: 27K)
• Data Mining Web Sites (PDF: 97K)
• Report Mining with TextPipe Pro (PDF: 31K)
• TextPipe Restrictions: What are they and how do I use them? (PDF: 45K)
• TextPipe Subfilters: What are they and how do I use them? (PDF: 43K)

Regular Expressions:

• Regular Expressions: Tutorial, Examples and Reference
• Regular Expression HOWTO by A.M. Kuchling
• Regular Expression Cheat Sheet
• Regular Expressions - User guide