From: "phil.swenson@..." <phil.swenson@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T02:20:09+09:00
Subject: search and replace text in files

I need to search a file for text "InstallDir=" + newline character and
replace it with something like:  InstallDir=C\:\\mws71 + newline

My own experimentation with this had problems with writing the back-
slashes to the file (it's a requirement of the format to have the back-
slashes as in my example).  The string had the back-slashes in it but
they didn't get persisted to the file correctly.

Are there any libraries that perform a search and replace?

thanks
phil