Replacement Problem

[juhav7]

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Is there any way or program to solve this kind of replacement. I have the text file which contains:

<a>word1</a><b>---</b>

<a>word2</a><b>---</b>

<a>word3</a><b>---</b>

etc... and lot of other text

I want to replace first --- with word1, second --- with word2, etc

Those words can be any kind of words like flower, people, beer... but brackets (<a></a><b></b>) are the same.

Is it possible to make all replacements AT ONCE? And how?

The program like PowerGREP maybe could do this but I don't know how.

Thanks if you can help.

 

[AngleWyrm]

You could set up a mapping dictionary of key/value pairs (wordToReplace, replacementWord), and then do a single loop through the document.

Introduction to HashMaps