Text-Editing program : muti-search-replace/multi-regex?

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Published on 2010-04-01T19:23:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 19:33 UTC
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I have a long and arduous text file, and I need to do lots and lots of the same search-replaces on it inside of selections.

Is there a text editing program where I can do multiple find/replace (or regex) at one time?

That is, I want to : (select text) - (do-find-replace-set-A) - (do other stuff) - (repeat)

Instead of : (select text) - (f&r #1, f&r #2, f&r #3 ... ) - (do other stuff) - (repeat)

I have textpad, but it's macro's won't handle find/replace.

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