My copy came today. I guess I don’t need to read it cover to cover this month!

I guess people are checking out Microsoft Watch. 79 referrals today! I also got a few interesting googles today : “passion technology“, “windows informix online multi-query” (from Germany no less) and my favorite: “activeup crack“. DevHawk is the only site that comes up when google for “activeup crack“. I’m not sure – is that a good thing? 😄

Just got a call from my parents – my father’s copy of MSDN Magazine with my article just arrived today. (Yes it’s true, I followed in the “family business” of software development). Mine hasn’t shown up yet nor is it published online yet, but it’s very cool to know it’s on it’s way.

As expected, someone pointed out a simple utility to handle my command-line search and replace needs: gsar – General Search And Replace utility. It does what I need it to do quite nicely. It doesn’t allow for regular expression searches, but I don’t need that anyway. So my TextReplace utility is officially scraped. Thanks to Mike Gunderloy @ Larkware (previously RSS subscribed).

Is there a decent (note, my standards are low) command line text file search & replace utility around? Everything I’ve found is a perl script, requires Ruby or costs money. Not that I can’t afford $25 for a usable utility, but I don’t think $3 / line of code is worth it. I built an ultra-simplistic .NET utility that was 8 lines of code (not including error handling, usage guide and license) that just takes a single file name, search regular expression and replacement text and uses the built in regular expression object to do the replacement.

I expect that someone will point out something ultra-obvious to me, and I’ll send my ultra-simplistic code to the recycle bin. If not, I’ll post the 8 lines of code (plus the error handling, usage guide and license).