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    • Vincent PerezV
      Vincent Perez
      last edited by

      HI, I’m quite green with python scripting, and I have found a problem which is well above my knowledge of notepad++ and python.

      I have several files with the structure:
      HEADER

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_four”
      412354

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_five”
      7655444556

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_six”
      876533454

      The thing is I want to store the three characters just before _section (ALE in this case) and then copy the following text just after the HEADER,

      party = {
      name = “s%_section_one”
      62194678

      party = {
      name = “s%_section_two”
      112093

      party = {
      name = “s%_section_three”
      87321345

      replacing the s% for the stored variable (ALE in this case). so the final result would be something like this:

      HEADER

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_one”
      62194678

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_two”
      112093

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_three”
      87321345

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_four”
      412354

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_five”
      7655444556

      party = {
      name = “ALE_section_six”
      876533454

      This is well beyond my current abilities, so i would accept any help on the issue, thank you very much.

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @Vincent Perez
        last edited by

        @Vincent-Perez

        I suppose something like this works:

        Set search mode to Regular expression

        find:

        (?-s)^HEADER(\R)\R(?=party = {\Rname = "(...)_section_four")
        

        replace:

        HEADER${1}${1}party = {${1}name = "${2}_section_one"${1}62194678${1}${1}party = {${1}name = "${2}_section_two"${1}112093${1}${1}party = {${1}name = "${2}_section_three"${1}87321345
        
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        • Vincent PerezV
          Vincent Perez @Alan Kilborn
          last edited by

          @Alan-Kilborn Is not finding it

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @Vincent Perez
            last edited by Alan Kilborn

            @Vincent-Perez

            You may need to adjust your double-quote characters in the “find” and “replace” expression I gave.

            If you look closely at your screenshot data, you’ll see that yours are “slanted” and I used “straight” in my expressions. They are not interchangeable – welcome to a unicode world.

            I did what I did because you pasted data into this site without preserving its format, so I made my “best guess” at what you had.

            Or, it could be something else wrong.
            But…I’d start there.

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            • Vincent PerezV
              Vincent Perez @Vincent Perez
              last edited by

              @Vincent-Perez said in Adding text with variable on several files:

              “ALE_section_one”

              You were right! thank you very much, you have saved me a lot of hours of boring copy paste :-)

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              • guy038G
                guy038
                last edited by guy038

                Hi, @vincent-perez, @alan-kilborn and All,

                If I suppose that your text contains, after the HEADER line, n blocks as below ( syntax xxx means any text ) :

                
                party = {
                name = "s%_section_xxx"
                xxxxx
                

                In turn, followed with m blocks as below :

                
                party = {
                name = "XXX_section_xxx"
                xxxxx
                

                And if m is greater than 0 ( i.e. if exists, at least, one block with a line name = "XXX_section_xxx" where the string XXX must replace the string s% )

                An other solution could be :

                SEARCH (?s-i)s%(?=.*?^name\x20=\x20"(\w+)_section)

                REPLACE \1


                Notes :

                • Unlike the @alan-kilborn’s solution, this S/R does not care about numbers, under the name = ••• line and about text after _section_, too. It just try to match any %s string and stores the first XXX string found, before _section, for use in replacement

                • Note that if NO block with a line name = "XXX_section_xxx" can be found in a whole section ( case m = 0 ), all strings s%, in lines name = "s%_section_xxx" of this section, would be changed as XXX, where XXX comes from the first name = "XXX_section_xxx" line of the next section

                Best Regards,

                guy038

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                • Ramanand JhingadeR
                  Ramanand Jhingade @guy038
                  last edited by

                  @guy038 I have to add 9 lines of matter (text), all on new lines, one after the other in multiple files after this code/text: <button class=“button-top”><i class=“fa fa-chevron-up”></i></button> - how do I do it?

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                  • PeterJonesP
                    PeterJones @Ramanand Jhingade
                    last edited by PeterJones

                    @Ramanand-Jhingade said in Adding text with variable on several files:

                    all on new lines, one after the other

                    Using \r\n in the REPLACE field indicates the CRLF newline. (If you’re editing a file with a linux LF newline, just use \n).

                    So if you wanted the replacement to be

                    blah
                    second line
                    third line
                    

                    then REPLACE would be blah\r\nsecond line\r\nthird line

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                    • Ramanand JhingadeR
                      Ramanand Jhingade @Ramanand Jhingade
                      last edited by Ramanand Jhingade

                      @Ramanand-Jhingade The only solution I can think of now is to use the “Extended” mode of search, search for <button class=“button-top”><i class=“fa fa-chevron-up”></i></button> and replace it with <button class=“button-top”><i class=“fa fa-chevron-up”></i></button>\nxxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxxx is the new line for each line, 9 times but is there a way to do it all together?
                      Apart from what @PeterJones typed above?

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @Ramanand Jhingade
                        last edited by PeterJones

                        @Ramanand-Jhingade ,

                        Sorry, yes, my reply was assuming Regular Expression mode, because that’s the mode that was being used in the conversation between @Vincent-Perez and @guy038 – I didn’t realize when I replied that you weren’t the original poster.

                        With 9 lines, you will just have to have nine instances of \r\nxxxxxxx in the replacement.

                        To avoid some duplication of data, I suggest you use the $0 replacement (see docs), which will use the value matched from the FIND, rather than manually retyping that initial data that you want to keep:

                        • FIND = <button class="button-top"><i class="fa fa-chevron-up"></i></button>
                        • REPLACE = $0\r\nline 1\r\nline2\r\nline3\r\nline 4\r\nline 5\r\nline six\r\nline 7\r\nline eight\r\nline 9!
                        • SEARCH MODE = regular expression

                        (I continue to use \r\n in my examples, because chances are, since you’re editing files on using a windows application, the newlines are probably windows-style CRLF newlines)

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                        • Ramanand JhingadeR
                          Ramanand Jhingade @PeterJones
                          last edited by Ramanand Jhingade

                          @PeterJones Wonderful but do I need that exclamation mark at the end (in the REPLACE field)?

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @Ramanand Jhingade
                            last edited by

                            @Ramanand-Jhingade said in Adding text with variable on several files:

                            but do I need that exclamation mark at the end (in the REPLACE field)?

                            Only if you want it there.
                            Honestly, some experimentation will quickly provide the answer to that, rather than asking here and waiting the time it takes for a response.

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                            • Ramanand JhingadeR
                              Ramanand Jhingade @Alan Kilborn
                              last edited by

                              @Alan-Kilborn Yes, you’re right. Thanks for the help @Alan-Kilborn @PeterJones and @guy038

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