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    • Carlos J. Segnini R.C
      Carlos J. Segnini R.
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      The first one worked!
      Thanks so much for your help, I owe you a beer!
      Have a good night

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      • Carlos J. Segnini R.C
        Carlos J. Segnini R.
        last edited by

        By the way, I went back and edited the script to run a second time looking for another instance below.

        I’m sure there are better ways to jump three lines, but it’s late and I needed to finish. It worked! haha

        from Npp import editor1, editor2
        
        replacements = dict(line.split('\t') for line in editor2.getText().splitlines() if line)
        
        def replace_with(m):
            return replacements[m.group(1)]
        
        # search_for = '(?<=<UWI>).+?(?=</UWI>)'
        for company in replacements.keys():
            search_for = '<UWI>({})</UWI>\R\h*.*\R\h*.*\R\h*.*\R\h*<PrimaryProduct>\K.+?(?=</PrimaryProduct>)'.format(company)
            editor1.rereplace(search_for, replace_with)
        
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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse @Carlos J. Segnini R.
          last edited by

          @Carlos-J-Segnini-R

          I’m sure there are better ways to jump three lines,

          In the end, what really counts is whether it does what it is supposed to do, right?
          One, of several alternatives would be for example

          <UWI>(.*)</UWI>(?s)(\R.+?)<PrimaryProduct>\K.+?(?=</PrimaryProduct>)

          but whether this is better or worse depends on the real data.

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            @Ekopalypse said in another replacement request for help:

            <UWI>(.*)</UWI>(?s)(\R.+?)<PrimaryProduct>\K.+?(?=</PrimaryProduct>)

            to be used in the script it would be

            '<UWI>({})</UWI>(?s)(\R.+?)<PrimaryProduct>\K.+?(?=</PrimaryProduct>)'
            
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            • Carlos J. Segnini R.C
              Carlos J. Segnini R.
              last edited by

              Thanks @Ekopalypse I still owe you a beer
              I’m sure i’ll come and ask questions again, so maybe more than a beer haha

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              • guy038G
                guy038
                last edited by guy038

                Hi, @ekopalypse and All,

                Just back from some holidays in Brittany ! Good day to everybody ;;-))

                Looking back to your first script, of this discussion, it solves an interesting and general task :

                • Given a first file, where some words / expressions must be replaced

                • Given a second file containing all these the words / expressions and their corresponding replacements with a tabulation as a separator

                This script executes, in the first file, all in once, the different replacements, from the second file’s table ;-))


                Now, considering the slightly modified script, where the range of chars searched is contained in tags <TEST>......</TEST>

                from Npp import editor1, editor2
                
                replacements = dict(line.split('\t') for line in editor2.getText().splitlines() if line)
                
                def replace_with(m):
                    return replacements[m.group()]
                
                editor1.rereplace('(?<=<TEST>).+?(?=</TEST>)', replace_with)
                

                May I ask you about two questions :

                • When the file to be modified ( new1 ) contains, in a tag <TEST>......</TEST>, a value not listed in the new 2 file, the scripts stops, no replacement occurs and the console message KeyError: 'ABCDE' is displayed

                Example, with new 1 :

                <Wellcollection>
                	<Well replace="false">
                		<TEST>BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>And BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>ABCDE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                

                and new 2

                BEFORE	After
                And BEFORE	After
                

                Could it be possible to avoid errors for all key values not listed in new 2 ?


                • Secondly, how to ignore case of the key values ? I mean, instead of he obvious method, below, in new 2
                BEFORE	After
                And BEFORE	After
                and before	After
                

                I tried this version, without success :

                from Npp import editor1, editor2
                import re
                
                replacements = dict(line.split('\t') for line in editor2.getText().splitlines() if line)
                
                def replace_with(m):
                    return replacements[m.group()]
                
                editor1.rereplace('(?<=<TEST>).+?(?=</TEST>)', replace_with, re.IGNORECASE)
                

                with new 1 :

                <Wellcollection>
                	<Well replace="false">
                		<TEST>BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>And BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>and before</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                
                

                and new 2 :

                BEFORE	After
                And BEFORE	After
                

                I still had the error :

                KeyError: 'and before'

                TIA,

                Best Regards,

                guy038

                Afterwards, I’ll do additional tests with your script and the regex S/R solution, below :

                SEARCH (?is)(?<=<TEST>)(.+?)(?=</TEST>.+^---.+^\1\t(.+?)$)|^---.+

                REPLACE ?1\2

                This S/R executed against this text :

                <Wellcollection>
                	<Well replace="false">
                		<TEST>BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>And BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>and before</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>And BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>BEFORE</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                ---
                BEFORE	After
                And BEFORE	After 2
                

                gives this changed text :

                <Wellcollection>
                	<Well replace="false">
                		<TEST>After</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>After 2</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>After 2</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>After 2</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                		<TEST>After</TEST>
                		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                		<ReserveStatusCollection>
                

                I bet that your script can manage largest files than my regex solution !

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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse @guy038
                  last edited by

                  @guy038

                  thank you very much for checking the script.
                  A solution concerning missing replacements is to replace with what was
                  found or what I later suggested, creating unique search strings from the
                  list of replacements.
                  The first approach might work better for large files, the second seemed
                  more reasonable at this point.

                  To ignore case sensitivity - let’s changes the replacement keys to lower string
                  and check against lower matches but replace with defined replacement values. So a replacement dictionary would look like this

                      replacements = {'täst': 'TEST'}
                  

                  and would replace either Täst or täst with TEST always.

                  Let me think about it again.

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                    last edited by

                    @Ekopalypse said in another replacement request for help:

                    A solution concerning missing replacements is to replace with what was
                    found or what I later suggested, creating unique search strings from the
                    list of replacements.

                    Not sure about the “later suggest” part, but this seems like a quick solution to the former:

                    def replace_with(m):
                        try:
                            r = replacements[m.group()]
                        except KeyError:
                            r = m.group()
                        return r
                    

                    Disclaimer: I didn’t actually try it. :-)

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                    • EkopalypseE
                      Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by

                      @Alan-Kilborn

                      Yep, that is another solution as well.

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                      • guy038G
                        guy038
                        last edited by guy038

                        Hello @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse and All,

                        I’ve just tried your solution, Alan,and it worked like a charm ;-)) Clever : when an entry is missing in the dictionary, the script simply rewrites the key value

                        So, if you realize that you forgot some entries in the new 2 file, ( so some replacements ! ), the easy workaround is :

                        • Add all these new entries as well as their corresponding replacement parts

                        • Re-run the script


                        Now regarding the case’s problem, we may run a regex S/R to get an unique case of an expression, before running the script

                        For instance, instead of defining, in new 2, these 5: entries

                        BEFORE	After
                        Before	After
                        before	After
                        BEFore	After
                        befORE	After
                        
                        • Firstly, we would use the regex S/R, against our text in new 1 :

                          • SEARCH (?i)Before

                          • REPLACE \U$0

                        • Secondly, we would re-run the Python script, with only 1 entry, in new 2 :

                        BEFORE	After
                        

                        Best Regards

                        guy038

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                        • Alan KilbornA
                          Alan Kilborn @guy038
                          last edited by

                          @guy038 said in another replacement request for help:

                          Now regarding the case’s problem,

                          Yes, I didn’t see a quick mod to the original script, and I didn’t want to alter its “simple elegance” to hack in casing support. Of course, it’s possible to do, but the original was such a work of art… :-)

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                          • guy038G
                            guy038
                            last edited by

                            Hi, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse and All,

                            Like @ekopalypse, I must had been tired, yesterday, while posting !

                            Regarding the case’s problem, no need to re-run the script : Just run the following S/R, of course :

                            • SEARCH (?i)Before

                            • REPLACE After


                            So, for all the remaining expressions which must be replaced, whatever their case, better to use the general regex :

                            • SEARCH (?i)(Expression_1)|(Expression_2)|(Expression_3)....

                            • REPLACE (?1Replacement_1)(?2Replacement_2)(?3Replacement_3)...

                            BR

                            guy038

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                            • guy038G
                              guy038
                              last edited by

                              Hello, @ekopalypse and All,

                              After tests, I confirmed that any kind of regex, like below :

                              SEARCH (?is)(?<=<TEST>)(.+?)(?=</TEST>.+^---.+^\1\t(.+?)$)|^---.+

                              REPLACE ?1\2

                              does not work properly ( 1 all contents match ! ) as soon as the scanned file contains more than 200 lines about :-(


                              Whereas your Python script, with the @alan-kilborn’s modification, works nice !

                              Given the initial XML file, below, in new 1 tab :

                              <Wellcollection>
                              	<Well replace="false">
                              		<TEST>BEFORE</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              		<TEST>Guy</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              		<TEST>00000</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              		<TEST>00001</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              		<TEST>00002</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              ....
                              ....
                              		<TEST>99998</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              		<TEST>99999</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              		<TEST>BEFORE</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              		<TEST>Guy</TEST>
                              		<WellType>Oil</WellType>
                              		<ReserveStatusCollection/>
                              	</Well>
                              </Wellcollection>
                              

                              and the new_2 contents, in secondary view :

                              BEFORE	After
                              Guy	Guy038
                              

                              and the python script :

                              from Npp import editor1, editor2
                              
                              replacements = dict(line.split('\t') for line in editor2.getText().splitlines() if line)
                              
                              def replace_with(m):
                                  try:
                                      r = replacements[m.group()]
                                  except KeyError:
                                      r = m.group()
                                  return r
                              
                              editor1.rereplace('(?<=<TEST>).+?(?=</TEST>)', replace_with)
                              

                              => On my old Win XP laptop, it took 26s to execute :

                              • 100,000 identical replacements ( from 00000 to 99999 as not in the dictionary )

                              • 2 replacements from BEFORE to After

                              • 2 replacements from Guy to Guy038

                              So, a script solution is definitively the right solution to adopt to solve this general task !

                              Best regards

                              guy038

                              However, in my example, it would be valuable to find out a method to avoid all these identical replacements ;-))

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                              • Carlos J. Segnini R.C
                                Carlos J. Segnini R.
                                last edited by

                                Hello friends
                                So one year later I had to do the same replacements, and found that the original script did not work anymore (Same error as reported by @guy038 ). Something must have changed in Notepad++, Python or somewhere else, because the first time it worked fine.

                                Anyway, I updated the code as suggested by @Alan-Kilborn and it worked correctly.
                                Cheers everyone

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