What do users say
I've been using Aba Search And Replace for just three hours now, and already I have saved, quite easily, 20-25 hours worth of work I would have had to do without the use of your program. I really appreciate you for creating such a simple and useful tool.
Jonathan Kraft
This is a very well-written search / search-and-replace utility. Lean, exceptionally fast, easy to use. This was one of those utilities that I don't normally need, but after checking out the website and features, even though there are freeware offerings, this was well worth the purchase just to have available. The incremental search speed is astonishing. The product is excellent, but it could do with code signing. As for ordering, I hate Plimus, and you can't use a free email address (I strongly prefer Gmail).
Frank Stephens
Note from the developer: we added code signing and switched from Plimus to PayPro Global after this review, so you can use a Gmail address now.
Your “search-as-you-type” interface and UTF-8 matching should be known more widely. I use Japanese, English, and Arabic in my html files and no other software satisfied me. It is not easy to use regular expressions in general, but search-as-you-type function helps to set regular expression codes easily.
Kazuki Shimomura, Japan
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Replacing text in several files used to be a tedious and error-prone task. Aba Search and Replace solves the problem, allowing you to correct errors on your web pages, replace banners and copyright notices, change method names, and perform other text-processing tasks.
Features
- Incremental search: the results are displayed immediately as you are typing the text to search for.
- 📝 Multi-line search and replace.
- ⚙️ Regular expression support including lookaround, non-greedy matching, and other advanced features.
- Complex replacements including converting the matching text to lowercase, inserting the file name, or adding width/height attributes to
<img>tags. - Replace in Unicode files (UTF-8, UTF-16).
- Preview before replacement: other tools require confirmation for each replacement, while Aba shows the list of replacements in context. You can review the list and confirm the changes at once.
- Undo for any replacement.
- 🔖 Search history and favorites.
- Syntax highlight for regular expressions, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Python, Java, C#, SQL, Pascal, and C/C++ files.
- 🔗 Integration with Windows Explorer, Total Commander, and Free Commander.
- Search and replace from command line.
- Context-sensitive help, references and tutorial included.
Usage examples
For web designers:
- changing headers, menus, meta tags, footers, copyright notices, and other repetitive elements of your web pages;
- adding registered trademark sign (®, ™) to every occurrence of your product name;
- cleaning the output of an automated conversion tool (for example, a PDF to HTML converter).
For programmers:
- inserting a header with the author name, copyrights, etc. to the beginning of each source code file;
- renaming a class, method, or function and even adding or removing method parameters.
News
January 11, 2025. Anonymizing a dataset by replacing names with counters.
October, 2024. Started posting regex tips on LinkedIn.
July 14, 2024. Automatically add width and height to img tags.
June 30, 2024. Version 2.7.2. Search and replace on network shares (UNC paths) including WSL 2 Linux drives; increased the stack size.
June 1, 2024. Version 2.7.1. Fixed changing the number of subexpressions in the regular expression without changing the replacement; fixed combobox border in dark mode under Windows 10; improved the dark mode color scheme. German , Italian , French , and Spanish translations are available.
May 12, 2024. Aba 2.7 is released. New features: dark mode; syntax highlight for Java, C#, SQL, and Pascal; UI facelift; drag and drop into the main window; autocomplete in the path combobox; bugfix.