Search and replace on a 150MB file without it saying "Not Responding"?

[anon123]

I'm trying to do a simple search and replace using wordpad on a huge file but it eventually times out and says "Not Responding" and I have to end the program.

Are there any other ways to do a search and replace on a file this large without it crapping out?

I was thinking of using excel to try it but I think it would mess up the formatting of the file.

Any ideas?

[rocknbil]

150 megs . . . just . . . . . WOW.

If I had this conundrum, I would do it via scripting. I'd write a small perl program to do the work, and run it in DOS. It would probably run in about 3-5 minutes. That would be the only thing I know of to digest such a huge chunk of data.

Alternatively you can give one of the MS Office or OpenOffice programs a try - Word/Office text editor, etc.

[Demaestro]

try Textpad.

I had a similar issue a few years ago and textpad was able to handle the find and replace without crashing.

[wyweb]

NoteTab Light will do it, depending on your processor speed. It's freeware and I've used it on bigger files than that before, although not by much.