WILDFILE is probably the most useful macro supplied with VEDIT. It lets you perform a search, search and replace or run a command or another macro on an entire group of files. The group of files may be specified using the wildcards "?" and "*". These files will be searched in any desired directory and, optionally, in all subdirectories. The primary use of WILDFILE is to search for all occurrences of a word (variable name, etc.) in a large group of files. For example, you might want to view all occurrences of the word "printf" in all the ".C" files.
Since VEDIT can edit any file, including binary files such as ".EXE" executables, you can search through all files in a directory by specifying "*.*" without worrying about what kind of files they are. "*.*" will also search any "hidden" files.
WILDFILE can also perform global replacements on many files. For example, you might have misspelled "parallel" as "parralel" in a group of ".TXT" files.
WILDFILE can also run a second macro on a group of files. For example, the PRINT.VDM macro could be run on all of your ".TXT" files.
Wildfilew.vdm is GUI (graphical user interface) version of WILDFILE. Another version, wildfile.vdm, prompts for all parameters with a DOS-like command lines.
Notes:
To start Wildfilew.vdm, select "Load/exec user macro" from "Misc" menu, and then select wildfilw.vdm.
Or, if you rename wildfilw.vdm into "wildfwiz.vdm", you can start it by clicking the toolbar button .
After starting Wildfilew.vdm, Search dialog is opened by default. Optionally, you can configure Wildfilew to remember the dialog that was last used, see "Options dialog".
For description of each field in the dialog, see the links below.
Fields common to all main dialogs