egrep (9 products)

DataPipe 3.3 (Shareware, $399)

Search and replace inside databases. Fix garbage data, remove binary characters, change embedded UNC paths coded in your database.

EasyPattern Helper 1.3.2 (Freeware)

EasyPatterns are a revolutionary new way to describe text patterns, in a way that is easy to understand and use, and with plenty of power under the hood. EasyPatterns make parsing a US phone number as easy as

Eluent Tools 1.8 (Shareware, $20.00)

Eluent Tools is a collection of file and folder tools for Windows. The tools include Eluent Replace, a GUI-based, interactive, multi-pattern, multi-file search and replace program that uses Perl regular expressions and supports Perl scripting; Eluent Find, a file contents searcher and viewer that supports a variety of regular expression dialects, including Perl; Eluent Attrib, a program which modifies file and folder attributes, including the Compressed and Encrypted attributes under Windows NT/2000/XP; Eluent Dir, a flexible file finder based on Path Plans, the common method for specifying file searches in Eluent Tools; Eluent EOL, a program for converting text files between DOS/Windows, Macintosh, and Unix formats; Eluent Tab, a program for converting tabs to spaces and vice versa in text files; and Eluent Touch, a program for modifying file and folder timestamps.

Finders Keepers 2.02.2 (Shareware, $29.00)

Finders Keepers(tm) can search files, replace text, index entire hard drives for instant text retrieval, view or launch any found files, zip found files, and edit the found ASCII text files. Search files 4 ways: plain-text search, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike. Find words even if they are misspelled. View, edit, or launch found files 6 ways, e.g., by associated programs. An ASCII text editor and a binary-file viewer are built in. With these, click on navigator buttons to jump from finding to finding for quick file or document examination. Copy, move, or delete found files. Save your results to disk for future reference. Replace text safely across multiple files and folders. Choose from 4 levels of confirmation, including word by word. Changed files are backed up automatically. You can replace by regular expressions. You can use a password to disable replace functions for risky users, such as kids or new users. Index selected files or your entire hard drive to find a word with

PowerGREP 2.3.1 (Shareware, $99)

PowerGREP is a powerful grep tool for quickly searching for a piece of information through files and folders on your computer, even if you do not know in advance exactly what you are looking for. PowerGREP's rich Perl-compatible regular expression support allows you to search for virtually anything by specifying the form of what you want, and let PowerGREP find the actual text matching that form. The documentation that is included with PowerGREP contains a detailed introduction to regular expressions, with many simple and complex examples.

RegexBuddy 1.2.1 (Shareware, $29.95)

Perfect companion for working with regular expressions. Easily create regular expressions that match exactly what you want. Clearly understand complex regexes written by others. Quickly test any regex on sample strings and files, preventing mistakes on live data. Use the regex with auto-generated code snippets in C#, VB, Java, Delphi, Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, etc. Collect libraries of regular expressions for future use. Detailed tutorial.

Search 2.3 (Shareware, $25)

Handy-dandy text file search utility will quickly and easily find those files containing piece(s) of text. It allows boolean combination (AND/OR/AND NOT) and remembers your previous searches to save you re-entering commonly used configurations. It can show you the lines from the file that matched, and you can simply drag the matched files to the application of your choice.

Xchange 2.6 (Shareware, $25)

Need to change some text that could be in hundreds of text files? Well Xchange can make this so easy for you. Just enter the text to find, the text to replace it with, drop in the files you want to work with, and press Go! It's done, easily and reliably. What? Made a mistake? Let Xchange restore the backups it made.

XchangeCL 1.3 (Shareware, $25)

Need to change some text that could be in hundreds of text files? Well XchangeCL can make this easy for you. It will find files using wild cards and find and replace multiple strings in each one.