Replace Help

Bortfive

Hi guys,

I am trying to replace

That
Hint “Any Text Here”
With
[“Any text Here”] spawn life_fnc_hint

The Any text here, is not the text that i want, Its like that

https://i.imgur.com/ZGJf93q.png

I have a lot of work to do if anyone found the way to do it :)

https://i.imgur.com/WOlws9w.png

Can anybody try to help me?

Thank you in advance.

guy038

Hello, @bortfive,

First, I strongly advice you to backup your 271 files !
Then, test my regex search/replacement, below, on one file, only !

Copy **one of your files in a new tab ( Ctrl + N )
Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
Type in the regex (?-is)^hint (".+?"); , in the Find what: zone
Type in the regex [\1] spawn life_fnc_hint , in the Replace with: zone
Tick the Wrap around option
Click on the Replace All button

Et voilà !

Note that, only, all ranges hint ".......";, beginning the lines, are matched !

So, given the initial text, below :

hint "Ahora ves los nombres de los jugadores";   hint "This is a test !";

hint "  Has dejado de ver los nombres de los jugadores   ";

You should obtain :

["Ahora ves los nombres de los jugadores"] spawn life_fnc_hint   hint "This is a test !";

["  Has dejado de ver los nombres de los jugadores   "] spawn life_fnc_hint

Now, if you may have several zones hint ".......";, in a same line, change the search regex to :

(?-is)hint (".+?");

And, you’ll get the following text :

["Ahora ves los nombres de los jugadores"] spawn life_fnc_hint   ["This is a test !"] spawn life_fnc_hint

["  Has dejado de ver los nombres de los jugadores   "] spawn life_fnc_hint

Notes :

First, the (?-is) modifiers :
- Force the regex engine to consider any dot as matching one single standard character ( and not the EOL ones )
- Force the search to be sensitive to case ( => So, a line HINT "...."; or Hint "...."; is not matched ! )
The part .+? represents the shorter range of characters between the two boundaries "
As this range "....." is surrounded by parentheses, it is stored as group 1
In replacement, the \1 syntax stands for the group 1 contents

Best Regards,

guy038

Bortfive

@guy038 i will try it, u are the best bro <3