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Re: FindReplace by list


  • Subject: Re: FindReplace by list
  • From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:26:20 +0100

In case it helps, if you can install Satimage osax, good news, you do it a one-liner:

change {"word1", "word2", "word3"} into {"1drow", "2drow", 3drow"} in theFile

and it's as fast as C can be.

"change" supports all flavors of regular expressions.

Emmanuel
Satimage-software


On Dec 4, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Jon Pugh wrote:

At 12:26 PM +0100 12/4/10, Michel Raj wrote:
I'm looking for hints to make a multiple search replace on text docs (.doc or .rtf)

This is something my SmartString class does easily in pure AppleScript.


-- sample script
property ss : load script alias "YourDisk:Folder1:Folder2:SmartString.scpt"
-- read the file
set theText to read file "Your:file:path"
set wordsToReplace to {"word1", "word2", "word3"}
set wordsToSubstitute to {"1drow", "2drow", 3drow"}
tell ss's SmartString
setString(theText)
repeat with i from 1 to number of items of wordsToReplace
replaceStrings(item i of wordsToReplace, item i of wordsToSubstitute)
end repeat
set theText to getString()
end tell
-- save the file
write theText to file "Your:file:path:"
-- end sample script


SmartString does much more too, and all in pure AppleScript (well, at some point it uses the "offset" scripting addition which is built in). It really makes string handling simple though.

	getString() --> string (only reads)
	setString(aString) --> string
	setList(aList, seperator) --> string
	on convertListToString(aList, delim) --> string (only reads)

	subString(x, y) --> string (only reads)
	beforeString(subString) --> string (only reads)
	afterString(subString) --> string (only reads)
	betweenStrings(afterThis, beforeThis) --> string (only reads)

	appendString(aString) --> string
	prependString(aString) --> string
	insertBefore(subString, thisString) --> string
	insertAfter(subString, thisString) --> string

	deleteCharacters(x, y) --> string
	deleteString(subString) --> string
	deleteBefore(beforeString) --> string
	deleteAfter(afterString) --> string
	deleteBetween(beforeThis, afterThis) --> string

	keepBefore(beforeString) --> string
	keepAfter(afterString) --> string
	keepBetween(beforeThis, afterThis) --> string
	replaceString(subString, withString) --> string
	replaceStrings(subString, withString) --> string
	replaceBetween(frontTag, rearTag, newValue) --> string

	getTokens(delim) --> list (only reads)
	setTokens(aList, delim) --> string
	beforeToken(token, delim) --> string (only reads)
	afterToken(token, delim) --> string (only reads)
	getTokenRange(startIndex, endIndex, delim) --> list (only reads)
	deleteTokenRange(startIndex, endIndex, delim) --> string
	keepTokenRange(startIndex, endIndex, delim) --> string
	deleteTokensAfter(token, delim) --> string
	keepTokensAfter(token, delim) --> string

	firstToken(delim) --> string (only reads)
	deleteFirstToken(delim) --> string
	keepFirstToken(delim) --> string

	lastToken(delim) --> string (only reads)
	deleteLastToken(delim) --> string
	keepLastToken(delim) --> string

	NthToken(n, delim) --> string (only reads)
	deleteNthToken(n, delim) --> string
	keepNthToken(n, delim) --> string

	trimWhitespace() --> string
	uppercase() --> string
	lowercase() --> string

SmartString is available on my web site in source format:

http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/software/SmartString.applescript

Jon
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