RegexSearch

RegexSearch is a lightweight Windows application designed specifically for helping you search multiple files for specified text or regular expressions.

The portable running status allows you to open the utility by simply running the executable file (there’s no installation included in the process).

You may copy the tool on any USB flash drives or other portable devices, carry it with you, and run it on the target system without administrative privileges.

What’s more, it doesn’t write entries in your Windows registry, so you can uninstall it using a simple deletion task. It’s Java-based and you need to deploy the working environment on your computer in order to make it work.

RegexSearch does not impress much in the visual department. The feature lineup is not intuitive so you need to invest extra time and effort in order to understand how this program works. There’s support for a help manual that may shed some light upon the application’s features.

The utility lets you search for text or regular expression on a single file, directory, plain text file with files and directories, or text copied to the clipboard. You can include or exclude files from the search, check out the occurrences of the target expression within each file in a scrollable window, and view the matched text highlighted.

What’s more, you can replace data individually or globally, preview, accept or reject replacements, check out the search results (number of matches and replacements) for each file, and copy the results to the clipboard.

You may save the search parameters to XML file format so you can import it in your future projects, and configure several general settings which refer to character encoding, appearance, tab width, editor, file locations, and fonts.

RegexSearch comes with several handy features for helping you perform find-and-replace searches for regular expression on multiple text files. However, it still needs some improvements to make the GUI look intuitive and simple to configure.