Is this possible, suffix text based on a list.

Mark Littlefair

@PeterJones

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

Mark Littlefair

@PeterJones

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

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

PeterJones

@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:

Does the menu entry Plugins > Python Script exist? If no, then revisit the INSTRUCTIONS
Does the menu entry Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > addSuffixes exist? If no, then revisit the INSTRUCTIONS
Try running Plugins > Python Script > Show Console. Does a new console window show up in Notepad++?
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.

PeterJones

@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 \(mm\)",

Mark Littlefair

@PeterJones
1,2 and 3 all ok

Here is the screenshot.

Mark Littlefair

@PeterJones

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

PeterJones

@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.

Mark Littlefair

@PeterJones

all good

Mark Littlefair

@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.

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

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

Mark Littlefair

@guy038

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

Mark Littlefair

@PeterJones

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