Replace & add specific parts/symbols from a specific lines only

Flammable

Hey guys,
I’m having a HUGE .json file with 8,000+ lines but everything repeats with the following template.

"water": {
    "DisplayName": "Water",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "water.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 5000,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },
  "healingtea.advanced": {
    "DisplayName": "default",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "healingtea.advanced.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 500,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },

What I’m trying to do is adding a the same link before the "imagename.png" on every Image line as it’s shown in the current example

"Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/healingtea.advanced.png"

but also I have to replace the dot . with a dash - for example healingtea-advanced.png
without changing the dot before the “png” or the added link will break.

Any help? For the URL part I think I have to use ^"Image": " in the find field with a regex value mode and then in the replace field to add the https://www.example.com/example2/
Or will this add it in front of ^"Image": " instead properly before the imagename.png?
But first I have to somehow do the . with - replacing before I add the link and make it more hard for replacing, right?

All of the lines I have to change starts with ^"Image": " so they can be all searched properly and it’s maybe easy to exclude the . before the png because it’s all the same again.

I hope I explained everything properly, if you have ideas share them please. I’m completely new here and yesterday learned how to use ^ symbol and Regex myself to add the same " symbol in front of each Notepad++ line and ", at the end but this is more complex for my brain, haha.

Mark Olson

@Flammable

This is the kind of job that you don’t want to use regular expressions for; JSON can be very hard to parse with regex. Use a JSON parser instead.

If I understand your goal correctly, your JSON document is an object that has many instances of the following:

    "this.is_the.key": {
        "BlockAmountChange": (true or false),
        "BuyPrice": (integer),
        "Currency": (text),
        "DefaultAmount": (integer),
        "DisplayName": (text),
        "Image": (text),
        "SellPrice": (integer),
        "Skin": (integer)
    }

and you want to modify every one of these objects to the following:

    "this.is_the.key": {
        "BlockAmountChange": (true or false),
        "BuyPrice": (integer),
        "Currency": (text),
        "DefaultAmount": (integer),
        "DisplayName": (text),
        "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/this-is_the-key.png",
        "SellPrice": (integer),
        "Skin": (integer)
    }

There are many ways to do this, including with scripting plugins like PythonScript. I’m going to demonstrate how to do this with the JsonTools plugin using RemesPath. If you need to automate this procedure, I recommend learning Python, and using the steps below as a starting point for your Python script that does this.

Copy the text of your file into a new buffer so that you can compare the result to the original
Open the tree view in JsonTools in your new buffer

Paste the following query in the text box at the top of the tree view

for x = keys(@);
at(@, x).Image = `https://www.example.com/example2/` + s_sub(x, `.`, `-`) + `.png`

Click the Submit query button; this will change every Image field
You can use ComparePlus to compare the result with the original and make sure it’s to your liking.

I tested this query with the following START JSON:

{
    "3kkQI.k67920": {
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": -708951,
        "Currency": "DBg0",
        "DefaultAmount": -618002,
        "DisplayName": "default",
        "Image": "PAC",
        "SellPrice": -191929,
        "Skin": 439298
    },
    "ruHOa": {
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": 800735,
        "Currency": "7",
        "DefaultAmount": 92053,
        "DisplayName": "8G",
        "Image": "cDf.Sdw",
        "SellPrice": 434145,
        "Skin": -127422
    },
    "Eup8FI8t.bvBR_JZcEv.YHBfpk": {
        "BlockAmountChange": true,
        "BuyPrice": 74371,
        "Currency": "KD",
        "DefaultAmount": 687624,
        "DisplayName": "I8v",
        "Image": "I3JGDMP.QUxCfddTP",
        "SellPrice": 94973,
        "Skin": -40263
    },
    "water": {
        "DisplayName": "Water",
        "Skin": 0,
        "Image": "water.png",
        "DefaultAmount": 1,
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": 5000,
        "SellPrice": 0,
        "Currency": "eco"
    },
    "healingtea.advanced": {
        "DisplayName": "default",
        "Skin": 0,
        "Image": "healingtea.advanced.png",
        "DefaultAmount": 1,
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": 500,
        "SellPrice": 0,
        "Currency": "eco"
    }
}

and got this END JSON:

{
    "3kkQI.k67920": {
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": -708951,
        "Currency": "DBg0",
        "DefaultAmount": -618002,
        "DisplayName": "default",
        "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/3kkQI-k67920.png",
        "SellPrice": -191929,
        "Skin": 439298
    },
    "ruHOa": {
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": 800735,
        "Currency": "7",
        "DefaultAmount": 92053,
        "DisplayName": "8G",
        "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/ruHOa.png",
        "SellPrice": 434145,
        "Skin": -127422
    },
    "Eup8FI8t.bvBR_JZcEv.YHBfpk": {
        "BlockAmountChange": true,
        "BuyPrice": 74371,
        "Currency": "KD",
        "DefaultAmount": 687624,
        "DisplayName": "I8v",
        "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/Eup8FI8t-bvBR_JZcEv-YHBfpk.png",
        "SellPrice": 94973,
        "Skin": -40263
    },
    "water": {
        "DisplayName": "Water",
        "Skin": 0,
        "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/water.png",
        "DefaultAmount": 1,
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": 5000,
        "SellPrice": 0,
        "Currency": "eco"
    },
    "healingtea.advanced": {
        "DisplayName": "default",
        "Skin": 0,
        "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/healingtea-advanced.png",
        "DefaultAmount": 1,
        "BlockAmountChange": false,
        "BuyPrice": 500,
        "SellPrice": 0,
        "Currency": "eco"
    }
}

guy038

Hello, @flammable and All,

First, I would advice you to fully read this interesting FAQ post below, which explains to prefer the use of a JSON parser ( instead of regexes ) for such problems :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25304/faq-parsing-and-editing-json-with-regex-is-a-bad-idea/1?lang=fr

Oh,…, by moving to your post, I just see the @mark-olson’s reply which explains a straight solution, based on the JsonTools plugin ;-))

However, I also succeeded to find out a regex way to do it !

So, given your INPUT text, below, in a new tab :

"water": {
    "DisplayName": "Water",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "water.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 5000,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },
  "healingtea.advanced": {
    "DisplayName": "default",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "healingtea.advanced.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 500,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
Untick all box options
SEARCH (?-is)^\x20+"Image":\x20"\K
REPLACE https://www.example\.com/example2/
Check the Wrap around option
Click, once, on the Replace All button ( NOT the Replace button ! )

You should get this OUTPUT text :

"water": {
    "DisplayName": "Water",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/water.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 5000,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },
  "healingtea.advanced": {
    "DisplayName": "default",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/healingtea.advanced.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 500,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },

Now with the following regex S/R, we’ll change any dot character, not followed by the string png", at end of line, with a dash char :

SEARCH (?-si)(?:^\x20+"Image":\x20"https://www.example.com/example2/|(?!\A)\G).*?\K\.(?!png",$)

REPLACE -

Just follow, exactly, the same other points of the previous S/R !

You should get your expected OUTPUT text :

"water": {
    "DisplayName": "Water",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/water.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 5000,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },
  "healingtea.advanced": {
    "DisplayName": "default",
    "Skin": 0,
    "Image": "https://www.example.com/example2/healingtea-advanced.png",
    "DefaultAmount": 1,
    "BlockAmountChange": false,
    "BuyPrice": 500,
    "SellPrice": 0,
    "Currency": "eco"
  },

BR

guy038