Re: How to Change one word on a procedure on 700 fmb automatically

This sounds like a job for Perl, if the line needing modification is essentially always the same line.

If the line is has more variability, you might want a tool that can match against language
structure (rather than Perl, which matches against text strings). For that, see the DMS
Reengineering Toolkit, which can carry out all kinds of "massive regular changes".
See http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html.

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"Steve" <schen_at_prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,

>

> I have problem to convert and compile form4.5 files into form6i files.


> Problem has been identified as one word need to be changed on one

 procedure


> on each of 700 fmb files.    The line is within a custom built procedure


> file, and the line is:

>

> RUN_PRODUCT(REPORTS,'a',SYNCHRONOUS,RUnTIME,filesystem,null,null);

>

> The change need is on first null only into '', and it can be compiled into

> form6i file.

>

> Is anyway to change it automatically?    Manually doing so is almost

> impossible.

>

> Thanks for any thought.

>

> Steve

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