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    • Mark LittlefairM
      Mark Littlefair
      last edited by

      I’m new to Notepad++ and I’m wondering if this task is possible with a pluggin or a macro etc.

      I’d like to open a file and within the file there would be specific code/groups of text such as G21 as an example. What I would like to do is within the file after the text is suffix with another piece of text based on a list i would populate within either the pluggin or macro.

      An example of this would be

      Initial lines of code

      G90
      G21 G40 G80

      After a scan and inserted additional text it would read like this.

      G90 ;Absolute programming
      G21 ;Programming in millimeters (mm) G40 ;Tool radius compensation off G80 ;Cancel canned cycle

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Mark Littlefair
        last edited by PeterJones

        @Mark-Littlefair ,

        Natively to Notepad++, no. And I don’t know of any plugin that has that specific feature.

        However, the PythonScript plugin (and other scripting plugins) allow you to use a common scripting language to write scripts to manipulate Notepad++ and the contents of the open files.

        For example, the following should do what you want. The installation instructions are found in the black box of text.

        addSuffixes.py

        # encoding=utf-8
        """https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22028/is-this-possible-suffix-text-based-on-a-list
        
        Enter your list of suffixes here:
        """
        
        suffixes = {
            # your search string and suffix go here, using the same format as these examples, including colons and commas
            'G90': "Absolute programming",
            'G21': "Programming in millimeters (mm)",
            'G40': "Tool radius compensation off",
            'G80': "Cancel canned cycle",
        
            # leave this one alone
            None: None
        }
        
        """
        INSTRUCTIONS:
        1. Install PythonScript Plugin
           * Plugins > Plugins Admin
           * Click ☑ PythonScript checkbox until checked
           * click INSTALL
           * restart Notepad++ as necessary
        2. Create new PythonScript script
           * Plugins > PythonScript > New Script
           * Give it a reasonable name, like addSuffixes.py
           * Paste in all the code from this black box
           * Save
        3. Switch to the document where you want to search/replace
        4. Plugins > PythonScript > Scripts > addSuffixes
        
        To assign a keyboard shortcut:
        1. Plugins > PythonScript > Configuration
        2. In the User Scripts, click on addSuffixes.py
        3. Click the left ADD button (above Menu Items)
            * This adds "addSuffixes" to the main Plugins > PythonScript menu, rather
              than requiring you to dig down into the Scripts submenu
        4. Exit Notepad++ and restart
            * This is required for ShortcutMapper to be able to see the new entry
              in the PythonScript menu
        5. Settings > ShortcutMapper > Plugin Commands
        6. Filter by addSuffixes
        7. Click on addSuffixes, then click the MODIFY button and
            set the keyboard shortcut in the dialog
        """
        
        
        from Npp import *
        
        editor.beginUndoAction()
        
        for search,suffix in suffixes.items():
            if search is None: continue
            search_re = r'\b\Q' + str(search) + r'\E\b'
            editor.rereplace(search_re, '$0 ;{}'.format(suffix))
        
        editor.endUndoAction()
        
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        • Mark LittlefairM
          Mark Littlefair @PeterJones
          last edited by

          @PeterJones

          Thank you for the quick reply, I will give this a try now.

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          • Mark LittlefairM
            Mark Littlefair @PeterJones
            last edited by

            @PeterJones

            It hasn’t worked Peter, is this likely because the file is a .nc file rather than a .txt file ?

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            • guy038G
              guy038
              last edited by guy038

              Hello, @mark-littlefair, @peterjones and All,

              Of course, the Peter’s method, with a script language, is very powerful and universal !

              However, if your number of spotted items is not important, a simple regex S/R could be enough !

              In your case, the regex S/R would be :

              SEARCH (G90)|(G21)|(G40)|(G80)

              REPLACE $0 ;(?1Absolute programming)(?2Programming in millimeters \(mm\))(?3Tool radius compensation off)(?4Cancel canned cycle)


              Notes :

              • The logic of this regex S/R is almost obvious !

              • In search, it looks for, either, each Gxx item described

              • In replacement, the $0 syntax represents the current search value ( Gxx ) which is rewritten, followed with a space char and a semicolon

              • Then, depending on the Gxx matched ( group 1 to 4 ), the corresponding comment part is just added

              • Note that the parentheses around mm must be escaped as they have a special meaning in replacement

              • IMPORTANT : Do not exceed 2,048 characters in the replacement zone !

              Best Regards,

              guy038

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              • PeterJonesP
                PeterJones @Mark Littlefair
                last edited by

                @Mark-Littlefair ,

                It hasn’t worked Peter, is this likely because the file is a .nc file rather than a .txt file ?

                If it failed, then it has nothing to do with the extension of the file. Unless the script specifically calls out certain extensions (this script didn’t), a PythonScript script will act the same regardless of file extension.

                I created a file that had the two lines from your example,

                G90
                G21 G40 G80
                

                and after running the script, I get:

                G90 ;Absolute programming
                G21 ;Programming in millimeters mm G40 ;Tool radius compensation off G80 ;Cancel canned cycle
                

                I did just notice a bug – the parentheses around (mm) in the replacement were lost… I’ll fix that in a future post.

                But in general, the script works for me.

                Debugging steps:

                1. Does the menu entry Plugins > Python Script exist? If no, then revisit the INSTRUCTIONS
                2. Does the menu entry Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > addSuffixes exist? If no, then revisit the INSTRUCTIONS
                3. Try running Plugins > Python Script > Show Console. Does a new console window show up in Notepad++?
                4. Select the .nc file and then run Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > addSuffixes . If there is any output in the Python Script console, copy/paste or screenshot it and include it in your reply

                BTW: @guy038’s regex solution will also work for a small number of replacements, like in your example.
                But it will get unwieldy if you have 10 or more suffix replacements to do, whereas this script should handle any number of search/suffix pairs you want to throw at it.

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                • PeterJonesP
                  PeterJones @PeterJones
                  last edited by

                  @PeterJones said in Is this possible, suffix text based on a list.:

                  I’ll fix that in a future post.

                  The easiest fix is to always use \( and \) for parentheses in the suffixes map

                      'G21': "Programming in millimeters \(mm\)",
                  
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                  • Mark LittlefairM
                    Mark Littlefair
                    last edited by

                    @PeterJones
                    1,2 and 3 all ok

                    Here is the screenshot.

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                    • Mark LittlefairM
                      Mark Littlefair @PeterJones
                      last edited by

                      @PeterJones

                      Sorry I’ve just seen it myself now, not sure how that 1 got in there sorry again :)

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @Mark Littlefair
                        last edited by

                        @Mark-Littlefair ,

                        Your screenshot didn’t show line 59 of addSuffixes.py, but that’s where the error lies.

                        If you really have the same input as mine, line 59 was the last line of the file, beyond editor.endUndoAction() … if so, just make sure there are no characters on the last line of the file (make it an empty line, without any spaces).

                        Looking at the error message, you appear to have an l or a 1 or something at the end of the file, which may or may not be indented. There shouldn’t be.

                        f5c20e96-27d0-4f02-9e03-2002113fa36a-image.png

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                        • Mark LittlefairM
                          Mark Littlefair @PeterJones
                          last edited by

                          @PeterJones

                          all good

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                          • Mark LittlefairM
                            Mark Littlefair @PeterJones
                            last edited by

                            @PeterJones

                            Sorry to be a pain Peter,

                            My mistake the semi colon should be open bracket then the text suffix then close bracket

                            I’ve tried to edit the code where i thought it should work and failed.

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                            • PeterJonesP
                              PeterJones @Mark Littlefair
                              last edited by PeterJones

                              @Mark-Littlefair ,

                              It’s probably failing because in the replacement, parentheses are a special character, so to get a literal paren wrapped around the replacement, you will need to use the \( and \) … so to replicate the final line on the left in your screenshot, you would want

                                  editor.rereplace(search_re, '$0 \({}\)'.format(suffix))
                              

                              … yes, with that line in the script, the output for your original example input yielded:

                              G90 (Absolute programming)
                              G21 (Programming in millimeters (mm)) G40 (Tool radius compensation off) G80 (Cancel canned cycle)
                              

                              The PythonScript plugin uses the boost regex engine (the same that Notepad++ uses) for the editor.research() calls, so the substitution follows all the same rules as for Notepad++ replacements, as described here

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                              • guy038G
                                guy038
                                last edited by guy038

                                Hi, @mark-littlefair, @peterjones and All,

                                Given your new conditions about the ouptut text, the regex S/R, provided in my last post, becomes :

                                SEARCH (G90)|(G21)|(G40)|(G80)

                                REPLACE $0 \((?1Absolute programming)(?2Programming in millimeters \(mm\))(?3Tool radius compensation off)(?4Cancel canned cycle)\)

                                BR

                                guy038

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                                • Mark LittlefairM
                                  Mark Littlefair @guy038
                                  last edited by

                                  @guy038

                                  Thank you Guy, this is the problem with your method though if I’m limited in the replacement zone to 2048 characters

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                                  • Mark LittlefairM
                                    Mark Littlefair @PeterJones
                                    last edited by

                                    @PeterJones

                                    That’s run through great now, thank you. :)

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