In some of my projects I have to do extensive find and replace on plain text files before I begin to work with the file.
(Just to give an idea: I often have edit bridge (card game) related files I need to convert, say 1♣ to one club; over that I need to convert certain expressions to hyphenated form, say 1♣ opening becomes one club opening, and that becomes one-club opening. All in all, I need to do close to two-hundred operations.)
Up to now, I saved my find and replace strings and did multiple find and replace in Notepad++. (e.g., FIND: (FindA)|(FindB)|(FindC)... REPLACE: (?1ReplaceA)(?2ReplaceB)(?3ReplaceC)...)
Now, I feel that even that approach is slow.
What other options do I have?
Is the solution to write a program in some language (I know a little Python, barely taking care of myself) to process the text? Is there an especially suitable language for the job. I would think of it as a long shot, but is there a software/tool especially suited for the job?
(Working on Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit.)
FIND & REPLACElist. Where (in excel) the list/sequence is easily modifiable. – p._phidot_ Jul 17 '19 at 03:40