Well, @diz-hydron, I suppose you could begin with this very simple script, named diz.py

def player_1(m):
    return str(int(m.group(1)) + X1) + ', ' + str(int(m.group(2)) + Y1)

def player_2(m):
    return str(int(m.group(1)) + X2) + ', ' + str(int(m.group(2)) + Y2)

editor.rereplace('"player1": \\[\K(-?[0-9]+), (-?[0-9]+)', player_1);

editor.rereplace('"player2": \\[\K(-?[0-9]+), (-?[0-9]+)', player_2);

Before running the script, of course, change the X1, Y1, X2 and Y2 values for true positive or negative integers ( e.g. +7 or -3 )

It should work nicely with your text posted here

In a next step, it would be better to enter the different values with, for instance, the notepad.prompt python command and assign the 4 typed numbers to the X1, X1, X2 and Y2 variables…

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he is a rapper by night,

I have never been accused of that particular moonlighting before…

@Diz-Hydron ,

Is my understanding of that part correct?

That seems a reasonable summary of the process.

If nothing happens, I would tell PythonScript to show the console, and you can look to see if there is an error message.

Is my understanding of that part correct?

Sounds right, although for sure don’t bother with the shortcut key thing right out of the box. That would only be useful if this whole thing actually works for you, and if you need to do it multiple times. Just run the script from the menus to start with.

In the meantime, I’d like to make sure that I’m not trying to drive the car without the key and make sure I understand how to run a plugin in the first place.

First, I go plugins/python script/new script. Then, I populate the file with the script I want to run and save it to the scripts folder. Finally, I open the text that I want the script to change, use a shortcut key as described in the FAQ, or run it by selecting plugins/python script/scripts/“Custom Script” Then if the script works, it should apply the change.

Is my understanding of that part correct? I can take a closer look at fixing the script itself a bit later.

editor.rereplace(‘“player1”: \[\K-?\d+’)

Because it includes backslashes, probably want this instead:

editor.rereplace(r'"player1": \\[\K-?\d+')

(note the leading r)

In other words, go back to the original script you showed (after “Ok, Everything is installed…”) and replace line 9 with editor.rereplace(‘“player1”: [\K-?\d+’)

Oh, heck, it was me that introduced the dropped backslash…

editor.rereplace('"player1": \\[\K-?\d+')

while also protecting against being altered by this forum’s software

Yeah, annoyingly and amusingly, there’s a flaw in that text box rendering code, and it impacts text that’s part of this discussion:

unfortunately, <backslash><left brace> renders as: \[
so you need <backslash><backslash><left brace> in order to make this appear: \\[

Also, it’s much preferred that you place your scripts in

a literal text box like this

using lines with triple backquotes as explained here; look for Literal Text Blocks and Red Typewriter Text. It’s preferred over images because it enables text copying while also protecting against being altered by this forum’s software.

Also, my apologies for the typo. It was not intentional, nor was it my intention to offend.

I was only being silly. Some typos are too delicious to pass over without comment.

Also, my apologies for the typo. It was not intentional, nor was it my intention to offend.

In other words, go back to the original script you showed (after “Ok, Everything is installed…”) and replace line 9 with editor.rereplace('"player1": \[\K-?\d+')

Didn’t see anything like that in the FAQ linked by PeterJonez.

Although he is a rapper by night, in this forum we try to stick with his daytime persona, that of a software professional.

Here’s what I have. I’m guessing I need to do something in line 3.

If you search for this, you’ll see it only hits player1 values:

Find: "player1": \\[\K-?\d+
Search mode: Regular expression

That might be the key to understanding enough for the scripted solution shown above to do the job for you.

I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding what you’re saying, but I think I get the gist. If it finds values instead of selecting them then I’m not too sure it would work. I have a lot of values and many of them are the same, but I need to be specific about which change. Here’s a bit more of what I’m working with.

What I’m trying to do is to quickly be able to change every X or Y value for player 1 or 2 by a set amount and speed up the workflow.

the values after player 1 and 2 define X and Y values. If I told the program to find every instance of 15 and add 100 for example, then it would presumably change the values for player 1 and 2. I could try and define it as “player1”: [ then the value afterward, but I’d need to type that out for every value I’d want to change and that takes as much work, if not more than just changing them manually. Unless there’s some way to define a chunk of characters as a variable. For example, “player1”: [X where X = every character prior to the , that separates the X from Y co-ordinate. Y may be possible too if I can exclude chunks of characters as in “player1”: [X, Y where X is any characters between [ and , and Y is the value to be changed.

I don’t even know if groupings of characters is definable in python. I just said it because I could see things getting complicated with double/triple-digit and negative numbers. From what you’re saying though it sounds like I’d need to manually put in “player1”: [ for every player 1 X value in order to get this mehtod to work. At that point, it’s slower than just adding a set amount to each value manually.

So the script acts on something that is “found”, not something that is “selected”. Unfortunately, you didn’t show enough of your sample data for us to give you any help on writing a find expression for it, but the hint of what you gave seems to have something of a pattern to it (which it would need, to be findable).

If you’re still having trouble seeing this, try seeing what the sample script does when you run it; or read the comments in the script.

From what I can tell with my limited knowledge of programming, this is pretty simple. The first line defines the change to be made. No clue what the second line does, 4-7 are comments, and line 9 applies the change to any value that matches the value in the parentheses. In this case, ‘X([0-9]+)’

I’m guessing that this value can be changed to any other value manually.

It sounded like Alen was saying there’s a “find” operation that will replace this value with whatever is currently highlighted. I’d assume that it would also be able to use multiple different values as well. In other words, this needs a line that defines what is to be the subject of the change be defined as all values highlighted. As to what that operation is, I have no idea. Didn’t see anything like that in the FAQ linked by PeterJonez.

I think this is where I get stuck. Anyone know what I need to do next?

I’ll take a look and see if I can figure this out. I’ll come back if I have any questions.

I have no idea how to run a program like this or make it work with Notepad ++.
I’d appreciate some advice on that front if you would be willing to provide some assistance.

Fortunately, I recently wrote a generic set of instructions for how to install the plugin and use it to run scripts like the one Alan linked you to: see the new FAQ entry

I’d appreciate some advice on that front if you would be willing to provide some assistance.

Ok, so maybe I misinterpreted your original posting. I now notice that you’ve said:

I’ve figured out how to use multi-edit to select multiple values

These postings usually go where someone gets a selection via a “find” operation. That’s what my solution suggestion was geared for.

And if you could come up with an appropriate “find” expression to match the data that you’ve manually selected, you can use my suggested solution (it’s just a matter of changing “plus 1” in the example to the “plus 200” that you need – an easy change).

It looks like what you’ve listed replaces a predetermined value that’s been manually defined. Idk if that value is automatically set to display the value selected, but at least in my ignorance it still looks like I’d need to input each value manually into the program.

Does anyone know of any other tool like Notepad ++ that might do the trick? I still find Notepad ++ to be really useful, but I’d still like to save time if possible.

I’m not a programmer

Alas the only way to do this in Notepad++ is via programming.

There are a lot of forum postings about this topic; perhaps a good one to have a look at is HERE.