I have a horribly tedious programming task ahead that involves manually hunting and replacing a bunch of strings in a million line C++ codebase. During such horrific tasks I like to learn new tools to alleviate some of the boredom. What's something I should use and learn?
Running a vim script on the codebase you can just do this to each file.
%s/string_to_replace/replace_string/gc
Then you just click type 'y' or 'n' to replace files. The time is minimized to a couple key presses.
@jmw150 no, its thousands of strings that have to be all replaces with something unique and unrelated. Find/replace of any variety is N/A
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Sounds like you are in for a fun time. I love those kinds of programming problems, that are outside of a normal programmers comfort zone. Definitely time to learn meta-programming tricks.
