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I have around 40 files, in which header and footer (constant string) is required. How to achieve this using regular expressions or macro?

Macro route, assuming you have no objection to repeating it 40 times.

Macros -> Record (Ctrl-Shift-R)
Ctrl-Home (resets cursor position to first line, first column)
{Insert your header material}
Ctrl+End (resets cursor position to end line, last column)
{Insert your footer material}

Macros -> Stop Record (Ctrl-Shift-R)

Save that macro out and any new documents or any existing documents can have that macro run against them. Might want to explicitly add in a carriage return (enter) before adding your header/footer.

WildEdit might have the ability to do this even easier with a regex that says "match entire document" and replace with "header"\1"footer"

Can also put the header and footer into a library clip that surrounds the selected text. So, Select All, Select "Header/Footer" from Clip Library.

Thanks Bob. Thanks talleyrand.

As talleyrand mentioned I was looking for an option similar to - "match entire document" and replace with "header"\1"footer"

Both the macro and clipboard accomplish the same thing, but without using RegEx.

I needed to do the same thing, but I didn't want to use macro or clip library since I had to do it with 3000 files... here is the regex solution in case anyone else is in the same situation :

\A = start of file

\z = end of file

Works perfectly!

Admitedly, I don't have WildEdit installed on this virtual, but those two regular expression escapes don't appear to work with TextPad.

You're right, sorry I forgot to mention that these worked with WildEdit.

I don't know if it's possible with TextPad regex, but anyway I don't think TextPad could handle 3000 files open at once, certainly not on my computer - it seems to break somewhere around 500.