How can I read an entire file into memory, loop through it to check
for some text (stretching over multiple lines), and then replace those
lines with something else?

For example:

"This is
a text
containing
five
lines"

I need to search for:

"a text
containing"

and replace it with:

"a short paragraph
consisting of"

In other words, I need to do a regular search/replace, over multiple
lines.

Please respond both to group and by mail.

Thanks,
Jarle Aasland

If you are using D3 there is a Find Dialog and a Find/Replace Dialog Box on the
tool bar that should do what you want.

For greater detail and an example, see the March 1998 Delphi Developer's
Journal.

HTH

:-)
Bill Burt, Jr.
BBur...@AOL.COM

    if you want to do a regular expression search, you maybe want to
have a look at the unit STRINGL which contains a class TGrep. TGrep does
all the regular expression search stuff similar to the unix grep
command. STRINGL is available from one of the following websites:

    http://www.lohninger.com/stringl.html
or
    http://qspr03.tuwien.ac.at/lo/stringl.html

Best Regards,

   Hans

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