[ZenCoder]

I prefer Perl style regular expressions.

My favorite editor for monkeying with text is UltraEdit 12.10a.

However when I try complex Perl Regular Expressions on large text files UltraEdit gets all buggy.

Not only does my regular expressions not work as desired, when I undue the replace operation multiple lines disappear and others are slightly garbled. Then Ultra Edit usually ends up crashing.

I am not 100% sure my syntax was correct, but thats no excuse for corrupting the file when undoing the operation and or crashing the program.

Its other two Regular Expression options work fine.

[LLXX]

sed.

[jftuga]

There is a version of Vim for Windows called Gvim. REs work great inside of vVm. Version 7 has tabbed-windows and spell checking. Vim has a steep learning curve, however.

http://www.vim.org/
http://tech.groups.y...nce/message/161

-John