How can i replace lines Serially?

Question

i have two very very long texts, like this:

text number 1:

# @ woothemes
#: comments.php:23
msgstr "text1"
msgstr ""

text number 2:

# @ woothemes
#: comments.php:23
msgid "text2"
msgstr ""

the result need to be like this:

# @ woothemes
#: comments.php:23
msgid "text2"
msgstr "text1"

actually, i need to copy alot of the line

msgstr "text1"

and replace it instead

msgstr ""

its will take alot of time to do it for 20,000 times, you can suggest me software that can help me in this work ? thanks and sorry for my bad english.

This seems like a good use case for a visual diff utility. Since you wrote tagged with notepad, I'll assume you're on windows and recommend WinMerge — ThatOneDude, Sep 22 '14 at 17:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

I suppose that all blocks have exactly 4 lines.

Import 1st file into Excel, column A
Import 2nd file into Excel, column B
For first 4 rows, create 4 formulas in column C, which copy necessary data into C1..C4
Select C1..C4
Double-click dot in bottom-right corner of selection so C1..C4 gets copied into column C along the whole height of column B. The following screen clipping shows the situation right before the double-clicking the dot:
Copy column C to output file

How can i replace lines Serially?

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