# How sophisticated is the Actionscript text manipulation?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-sophisticated-is-the-actionscript-text-manipulation/194127
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 20, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-sophisticated-is-the-actionscript-text-manipulation/194127 "2006-07-20T17:58:23Z")
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### Author: ![OM2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@OM2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/OM2)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-sophisticated-is-the-actionscript-text-manipulation/194127/1 "2006-07-20T17:58:23Z")

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I want to search and replace specific text in a HTML file (about 10k - so quite a lot of text).

I was thinking of trying to get Flash to do this for me.

Good idea or bad idea!?

I wasn’t sure how good Actionscripts text manipulation was!

The only reason why I was think of doing this in Flash was because I don’t know VB.

I would otherwise do it in Perl if Actionscript is no good.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks.

OM