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Im doing a project at university where i need to replace the names of people in a chat log we have.
The problem is, i have over 900 unique names i need to replace, and manually doing so would take a lot of time, time i do not have. I have the names extracted and a list of the replacement names, i just need a smart way of mass replacing them. Again, this is not replacing in many different files, its replacing many different things in the same document.
I've been working in Notepad++ trying to do this, but cant seem to find the answer.
Edit: I have looked earlier at the answer provided in Find and Replace several several different values all at once however as mentioned its 900 unique names, and creating a script described there would also be very time consuming. The person is asking for 2 instances of find and replace, i need over 900
Mexikaan
Posted 2016-12-09T21:30:30.003
Reputation: 11
"creating a script described there would also be very time consuming." More time consuming then doing them manually one at a time? To me, it's still a duplicate, if you'd like more/different/newer answers feel free to place a bounty on the existing question. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2016-12-09T21:40:59.763
Provided that it's not critical how long it takes to perform the updates, your best bet is to use a command-line batch script which runs through each of the substitutions and performs each in turn on the file list. Note that, however you do it, there is a generic problem that any replacements you make may be subsequently updated by a later entry in the substitution list, though this is not insoluble. My tool of choice would be
sed, native to Linux, and ported to OSX and Windows. – AFH – 2016-12-09T22:00:20.013