Version history:

• 19th July 2009: 1.3.3
• 27th June 2009: 1.3.2
• 3rd August 2008: 1.3.1
• 27th January 2008: 1.3

Change log

Screenshots:

• A Batch-RegEx session

Download:

• Mac OS classic (StuffIt, 541 kB)
• Win32 (Zip, 437 kB)
• RB 3.5.2 source (StuffIt, 84 kB)

Batch-RegEx 1.3.2 open source

Batch-RegEx is a simple graphical batch regular expression replacement program, capable of running a sequence of replacements against multiple files. Internally it uses an archaic version of the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library (PCRE). The screenshot is of the original version, running the task for which the program was initially created.

RegEx Buddy and PowerGREP have taken the concept a lot further, but have sacrificed bare simplicity.

Caveats:

Due to limitations of the antediluvian framework with which the program is written, numerous caveats apply.

• Requires local administrator rights due to the moronic framework it relies on. Something to do with unpacking framework libraries to the Windows directory.
• ASCII only; Unicode escapes do not work, nor apparently does shoehorning in Unicode characters as ASCII.

Discontinued:
Batch-RegEx is discontinued. I am not against rewriting it using wxWidgets but this is quite unlikely to happen.