I would like to use a combination of the Find in Files and Set Macro for File Load/Save behaviors. I have many many template files (not UltraEdit templates) that need a parameter changed. I would like to use Find In Files to identify all the files that require updating. Then the Macro Name to Execute on Load would issue the appropriate find and replace commands to identify/change the parameter and close the file.

Is such behavior already available? It appears to me that the Find In Files does not issue a Load event that would trigger the macro to execute.

I really could use a sophisticated Change En Masse behavior.

Replace in files is what I am doing. Unfortunately, what I want to replace occurs multiple times within a files. The files are configured with blocks of parameters, each beginning with BEGIN <text> and END. I first have to locate the correct block before I can do a change of the parameters within that block. That is why I require the macro.

What I do is "Find In File" to locate files with the desired BEGIN block (in bold, below). I thought that the opending of the file would trigger the macro to run, which would then relocate that BEGIN block, then find the END, then find the correct subparameter between the two (in red, below.)

Without that Execute macro on Open trigger, I am basically hosed. With it, however, the doors are open for huge change behaviors.

Thanks,
dvn

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+ Create Files Per Segment (Y/N)..... = Y
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BEGIN Report: Processing Center Listing (PER/STD/PSVC)
+ Create Files Per Segment (Y/N)..... = Y
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+ Create Files Per Segment (Y/N)..... = Y
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