Text-file manipulation within an installer

[seanw]

I'm wondering if there's any convenient way to manipulate large text files within an installer: Specifically, to perform large-scale simple search-and-replace (it does not need to be so complicated as a regex; simple search-and-replace is fine). Strings are too small to contain the quantity of data involved: In most cases, I'm dealing with text files of 40-50 Kb each, extracted by the installer itself. Thus they're too big to simply use the standard string library. Obviously, I could write an extension DLL to do this, but that's a waste of time if there's already something written. So I'm wondering if anybody has already built a DLL for this, or if there's an existing chunk of code I can slap in from somewhere to do it.

[Yathosho]

the ReplaceInFile function is one of multiple scripts, which can search&replace text

[seanw]

Thanks. It's not exactly the most efficient piece of code I've ever seen, but it should do the job in a pinch.

[bluenet]

I want somebody make a DLL to do this,because this function seem too large.

[deguix]

What? If you see my Advanced StrStr you will be impressed with its size (and with the "Advanced" word correctly put on the title...).