TextPipe offers a number of different search and replace types:

• Exact match - the find string is matched exactly
• EasyPattern - an easy to use pattern matching language
• Pattern - the find string is a perl-style pattern match expression

• Sounds like - the find string is used for soundex matching. Soundex matching is a method that makes surnames such as Smith, Schmidt and Smythe all appear identical. It is very useful for finding misspellings of names

• Edit distance - Determines the number of 'edits' between the search word and words in the text being processed
• Old Pattern (egrep) - the find string is an egrep-style pattern match expression, which is not as powerful as perl pattern matching
• Brief pattern match - the find string is a pattern match expression in the style of the text editor Brief
• MS Word pattern - the find string is a pattern match expression in the style of Microsoft Word
• Unicode exact match - used for finding text in Unicode files
• Unicode pattern match - for finding Unicode text patterns in Unicode files
   
• Load a search/replace list from Excel, CSV or Tab
• Search/replace list
• Find an HTML/XML element (e.g. <table...>)
• Find an HTML/XML attribute (e.g. height="...")
• Find between an HTML/XML pair (e.g. <script>...</script>)

See also

• An Introduction to Pattern Matching

• Example patterns
• Pattern matching reference

• EasyPattern pattern matching
• EasyPattern reference

• Unicode patterns reference

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