Automated Search & Replace help please

Tobias Ray

I have a file where I want to do an extensive search and replace utilizing a subtitutions.txt file containing all the search terms and their replacements. The search terms often have spaces in their names like;

User Logged Off.ico

The replacement may also have multiple spaces like;

User Logged Off 32.ico

I have installed Python Script and have been trying to get a couple of scripts I found to work, but they use single word search and replace terms.

This is the main script I have tried;

with open('C:/Temp/Substitutions.txt') as f:
    for l in f:
        s = l.split()
        editor.replace(s[0], s[1])

If I change the split seperator to (‘#’) it seems to work except I get and extra LF character after every replace which destroys the code.

Notepad+ is such a brilliant product and I had not realised that you could use Python with it - it’s great that it has pushed me to try and get to grips with Python, even though it is proving frustrating at the monment.

Any help much appreciated. Thanks for reading.

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Alan Kilborn

@tobias-ray said in Automated Search & Replace help please:

I get and extra LF character after every replace which destroys the code

Try s = l.rstrip('\n\r').split('#')

Tobias Ray

@alan-kilborn said in Automated Search & Replace help please:

s = l.rstrip(‘\n\r’).split(‘#’)

Hi alan-kilborn, thanks so much for the help. In my simple test, that does solve the problem, appreciated.

I will now give it a try for real and no doubt realise a few further issues.

Thanks again.