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WanyWord v. 4.00
TextSearcher with BOOLEAN and NEAR Operators - ANSI/OEM conversion
Edits found files and can be used as a cardfiler
You can (so far) choose between Brazilian, Danish and English plus a partial German translation. More is hopefully coming.You can write your own user interface (that is why I am hopeful).
WanyWord Is Freeware
Download
the English Version 4.00. The Visual C++ source code is included.
Download the older WanyWord
3.00. The Visual C source code is included.
WanyWord's PAD file
Who needs WanyWord and why?
If you merely
need to search for two words or word combinations within a few files or directories,
you don't need WanyWord. Windows 9x built-in search program will do the job.
But if this is not enough, if you must find not just the haystack but
also the needle in it and want to search for words within a sentence, a line
or a page, WanyWord is is all you need (but read about the COMPETITORS).
If you want to study the
Bible or Shakespeare, there are CD-ROMs with search programs. But those programs
can only be used for the text(s) on those CD-ROMs. WanyWord can be used for
any text anywhere and by anybody. There are no copyright problems. Schools
and libraries with small or nonexistent budgets may therefore find it of interest.
Also if the database
program you use to store odds and ends is not quite what you want, WanyWord
is worth a look. A number of freeform database programs can store odds and
ends, the problem is that they assume that you think and work like the
programmers who wrote them. If you do, look no further, you are in luck. If
not, WanyWord may be what you need, for WanyWord does not assume anything
about your little grey cells or your work habits. It simply assumes that there
is text (preferably ASCII) and that it is found in a file, in a page, in a
line or within a sentence. WanyWord can find text within any kind of file
(except ZIP files and other compressed files), but it can only show ASCII,
RTF and HTM text and it can show only text. It is however possible to start
an appropiate viewer/editor from within WanyWord and WanyWord understands
OLE.
I have been informed by a user that WanyWord displays files in Unix as well
as DOS format, but I have not seen it with my own eyes. UNIX End-of-Lines
are different from those in DOS and Windows, so there must be some problems.
Who
does not need WanyWord and why
WanyWord is totally literal minded. If there is a line feed in the middle
of a searched for text then that text will not be found because the line feed
characters (in Windows ASCII 013,010) have not been written in the search
string. For most people this is not a problem. But if you need to search in
old DOS texts where often every line ends with a line feed or if you make
your living by programming home pages, you should keep this problem in mind.
WanyWord
can be used as a cardfiler. It has a TXT/RTF editor
which understands OLE and which can sort words, lines and pages. It also has
recursive search/replace. You can search for characters that are not on the
keyboard (including page breaks and EOLs) and you can replace them if you
wish. There is very strong sorting, you can define the sort order if you do
not like Microsoft's way of doing things. And there is a built-in browser
which uses Microsoft technology which is both good news and bad news.
Download the English Version 4.00
E-mail me about bugs please. And if you find a way of putting WanyWord to good use I hope to hear from you, especially if you go to school or teach school or if you work in a library.
