Patent ID: 7099902

Claim:
A method for editing computerized files, the method comprising: inputting a first string pattern, one or more instances of the first string pattern to be scanned for in one or more computerized files; inputting a second string pattern to be substituted in place of the one or more instances of the first string pattern; inputting one or more computerized files to be scanned for the one or more instances of the first string pattern, wherein the one or more computerized files to be scanned for one or more instances of the first string pattern are specified by the file extension of the files; scanning the one or more computerized files for the one or more instances of the first string pattern; replacing each of the one or more instances of the first string pattern in the one or more computerized files with the second string pattern; and automatically creating an audit annotation of the nature of the replacements made to the computerized files.