Global File String Replacement for files in Teamsite

System

Hi,

My company needs to replace certain string in large number of files in Teamsite. What will be the best solution to do it? I can think of the following two possible solutions:
1. Map a drive to iwserver, do global replace, touch all of them, and resubmit them to staging again.
2. Using Teamsite FrontOffice. (I don't really know this product, so I am just guessing.)

Any help is appreciated.

Adam Stoller

I think the first alternative is better - but you could also just do the same thing on the TeamSite server itself rather than mapping a drive to it. The advantage being that you would be sure to have Perl at your disposal and Perl is a great tool for doing things like string manipulation.

Note - you probably want to make sure that if there were no changes needed to make to the file that you do *not* replace that file with a new copy of itself.

You do not have to touch each file separately - the mere act of modifying the content will cause the file to be considered modified.

Note: you only want to run this process within a specific workarea - don't try running it in staging areas or editions.

The perl code would be relatively trivial - something like (this is UNTESTED):

   my $file = $ARGV[0];
   if (open(IN, "<$file")){
       my @text = ();
       my $modified = 0;
       local $/ = undef;
       map {
           $modified = ($_ =~ s|oldstring|newstring|gs);
           push(@text, $_)
       } ;
       close(IN);
       if ($modified && open(OUT, ">$file")){
           print OUT @text;
           close(OUT);
       }
   }

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)