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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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.