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Thanks for these comments radius & DMcCunney.
Texteditors.org looks interesting, I'll have a read through there.
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It has references for every text editor on every platform
I've been able to track down.
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I could learn to use regex but I still am limited to what I can do at any one time. I suppose I'm a bit lazy and just wanted to have it all recorded in a way that I didn't have to keep running the same commands all the time.
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You might want to look at Perl. Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It was written by Larry Wall for Unix, and versions now exist for pretty much every platform. Perl is designed to manipulate text files, and you can write perl scripts to do a lot of what you seem to need to do. The defacto Windows version is probably
ActiveState's. Perl is free and open source. ActiveState makes it's living selling and suopporting commercial implementations, but has a free Community edition with source available that should do everything desired.
Some editors use Perl as a macro language, and at least one is written in it.
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I might need to expand my search to include IDE's and web development tools as they can also provide similar functionality and should also include some form of macro/scripting language.
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Thinking about it, an IDE might be the way to go. An IDE is simply an integrated Development Environment, including a text editor and interfaces to compilers, debuggers, and the like. Most are configurable, so there's no reason it shouldn't interface to tools to check syntax and build ePub books from source files.
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Dennis