Re: How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files?

[michael.l]

On Jul 1, 1:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> michael.l wrote:
> > I've browsed the messages here and have googled but don't see a clear
> > solution yet. I have about 900 documents to which I need to apply a
> > list of maybe 40 separate regex search and replaces. I would like to
> > feed a list of the regex expressions and replacements to emacs and
> > have it applied to a directory of the files. Any solutions? Keyboard
> > macros don't seem like the right solution....
>
> Sounds like the best would be writing a small elisp function to do the job.

I'll look into elisp...Struggled with perl to do this....