Very new to notepad++

PeterJones

Is what you want possible in Notepad++ & PythonScript plugin together? Yes

By @John-Russell? At this moment in time? No. After a day or two of asking us questions here? Not likely. After a few weeks or months of learning regular expressions (so that you understand (\d*\.?\d+)) and Python (so that you can figure out how to customize the simple example scripts to do something really complicated): maybe; I don’t know how quickly you learn.

And honestly, what I think you’re trying to do would be faster with just writing a command-line program for Python – for which you would still have to learn Python, because this isn’t the forum for asking generic Python questions or for having us write you custom Python applications for free – or in some other language if you already know a programming language (I would personally write it in Perl if I were doing it for myself).

Since you’ve got 9000+ files that you want to edit, that’s not really the kind of thing that you want to invoke a text editor to do: text editors are made for editing one file at a time, or a few files at a time. If you’ve got a change that goes across hundreds or thousands of files, text editor isn’t the right choice. You could do it in PythonScript plugin in Notepad++, and the plugin would loop through the files, individually opening them, performing the changes, and then exiting – assuming that you don’t really need to highlight text in each file before doing the replacement.

But the situation I think you really have:

You have a list of parameters you would like to change: DamageCapacity, Price, UnlockByRank, Torque, FuelConsumption, EngineResponsiveness, and so on.
You have a mental list of scaling factors (2x, divide-by-1.05, 2.5x, etc) that you have a mental map of that scaling factor to the parameter
You have a list of 9000+ files (hopefully all in the same directory or hierarchy, and hopefully all with a common file extension) that you want to perform the edits on
You have unclear-to-me-requirements: on how many changes in each file:
- Maybe you want to scale every instance of DamageCapacity in every file it’s listed in by the same amount. If so, that’s actually relatively easy.
- Maybe there are multiple of each parameter in each file, but you only want to do the math in a certain section, and that section is the same in every file. For example, maybe only in <Winch> in every file, so you change any DamageCapacity and Torque and … in every <Winch>, but not in any other <PowerDrill> or <SuperTank> objects. If so, that’s a little more complicated, but still doable.
- If it’s any more complicated than that, you need to find an already purpose-built application to handle the complicated logic.

But we’ve given you a start in Notepad++ & PythonScript, and shown you how to do it on individual chunks to get started. If you want to make a more general-purpose solution, you are going to have to start putting in the effort to learn regular expressions and a programming language like Python. This Forum is not the place for learning either of those. (We help with quick regex in Notepad++, but we cannot handhold you through the entire process. And we will help with the Notepad+±related portions of PythonScript – how the PythonScript plugin interacts with the Notepad++ editor – but generic Python questsions don’t belong here.)

John Russell

Ok so @Alan-Kilborn @PeterJones when I run the script for this

def multiply_by_2(m):
    return 'Torque="' + str(int(m.group(1)) * 2) + '"'

editor.rereplace(r'Torque="(\d*\.?\d*.\d+)"', multiply_by_2)

and say the Torque Value=70000 I press my hot key and everything is good value then turns to Torque Value=140000 I then come to the next segment in the file which for example is EngineResponsiveness=0.35 I press my hot key and nothing happens??

Yesterday when I got help for howManyblueitems=\d+ I found that it did the same it worked for everything unless the value had a decimal point. So with a bit of tinkering well basically - I just randomly added .\d+ so the code looked like this howManyblueitems=\d+.\d+ and it worked and replaced the ones with decimals as well.

So I’ve tried the same logic with editor.rereplace(r'Torque="(\d*\.?\d+.\d+)"', multiply_by_2) but it doesn’t work.

How come?

Alan Kilborn

@john-russell

Are you seriously expecting a search term containing Torque= to match something containing EngineResponsiveness= ?

We are willing to go the extra mile in assisting, but we expect more thinking on the asking end.

John Russell

@alan-kilborn said in Very new to notepad++:

@john-russell

Are you seriously expecting a search term containing Torque= to match something containing EngineResponsiveness= ?

We are willing to go the extra mile in assisting, but we expect more thinking on the asking end.

No I had that changed just in my example I hadn’t

Alan Kilborn

@john-russell said in Very new to notepad++:

No I had that changed just in my example I hadn’t

Well, we aren’t mind readers here. To get good help, you have to accurately convey what you’ve tried and what you still need assistance with.

John Russell

@alan-kilborn said in Very new to notepad++:

@john-russell said in Very new to notepad++:

No I had that changed just in my example I hadn’t

Well, we aren’t mind readers here. To get good help, you have to accurately convey what you’ve tried and what you still need assistance with.

Yeah even when its changed to editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d+.\d+)"', multiply_by_2) it isn’t working (Just thought Id try just encase I made the same mistake :P)

PeterJones

@john-russell ,

I just randomly added .\d+ so the code looked like this howManyblueitems=\d+.\d+ and it worked and replaced the ones with decimals as well.

Your random experiments deceived you. . in a regular expression matches any character, so your howManyblueitems match would have matched the 5.14 that is reasonable, but it would also have matched 5x14 which would have then not worked for the muliply-by-2; you were just lucky you didn’t have any accidental matches.

editor.rereplace(r'Torque="(\d*\.?\d+.\d+)"', multiply_by_2)

Why would you do such a thing?! I already told you that the expression I gave you, \d*\.?\d+ matches a number with a decimal point in it. Specifically, it matches 0 or more digits, 0 or one decimal points, and 1 or more digits. That matches 5 or .5555 or 5.5555555555555 all equally well.

If you think r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d+)"' doesn’t match EngineResponsiveness="0.35", then you will need to show us data that proves this.

But now I read and I see that your most recent example has Torque Value=70000 (which has an extra word and no quotes) and EngineResponsiveness=0.35 (which has no quotes), so then my question would be “why do you think that a regex which requires quotes around a value would match a value that is missing the quotes?”. A regex that is looking for EngineResponsiveness="0.35" can never match text that is EngineResponsiveness=0.35, no matter how much you might wish it so.

Also, there is 0 chance that the Torque script you showed would have matched your Torque Value=70000. Be explicit and accurate about your data and what you have tried, or we are unable to help you.

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John Russell

@peterjones said in Very new to notepad++:

If you think r’EngineResponsiveness=“(\d*.?\d+)”’ doesn’t match EngineResponsiveness=“0.35”, then you will need to show us data that proves this.

If you think r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d+)"' doesn’t match EngineResponsiveness="0.35", then you will need to show us data that proves this.
Unless I’m missing what you mean?? It doesn’t work for anything with a decimal! Unless decimals in Notepad++ mean something else?

Here’s a link (Hopeful Vimeo don’t compress to much so its not watchable) to what I’m doing and you can see it doesn’t work. I’m probably doing something wrong but I don’t what that is.
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Alan Kilborn

@alan-kilborn said in Very new to notepad++:

there’s a good starting point for putting together a bit more of a demo – I’ll try to do this, and perhaps it will give you a better start.

I’m going to back down on this offer.
There is too much uncertainty and it seems lack of understanding on the part of the OP.
Sorry…

John Russell

@alan-kilborn said in Very new to notepad++:

@alan-kilborn said in Very new to notepad++:

there’s a good starting point for putting together a bit more of a demo – I’ll try to do this, and perhaps it will give you a better start.

I’m going to back down on this offer.
There is too much uncertainty and it seems lack of understanding on the part of the OP.
Sorry…

Come on? I’m simply saying it didn’t work as intended and have shown you proof like you asked. I don’t like how you expect me to know this so quickly its whole new language its would take years in programming or something like that to know so quickly.

def calculate(match):
    return '%s' % (str(int(match.group(1)) * 10))

editor.rereplace('(\d+)', calculate)```

This works for all values including ones with decimals but then it doesn't have the feature of limiting it to a predefined term like```EngineResponsiveness="0.35"```

PeterJones

@john-russell ,

I found the problem.

The reason it was not changing was because int("0.35") was giving an error message in the PythonScript console that we were not seeing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp.8.4.2.portable.x64\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\Multiply.py", line 7, in <module>
    editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(.*?)"', multiply_by_2)
  File "C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp.8.4.2.portable.x64\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\Multiply.py", line 5, in multiply_by_2
    return 'EngineResponsiveness="' + str(int(m.group(1)) * 2) + '"'
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '0.35'

You did not read or understand in the example where it said,

To convert the text of a group to a number in python, use int(m.group(1)) to make it an integer, or float(m.group(1)) to make it a floating point number.

You were supposed to then understand that if you want Python to treat the string as a floating point number, you needed to use float(m.group(1)), not int(m.group(1)).

I should have remembered, as soon as you said “nothing happened”, to have you turn on Plugins > Python Script > Show Console to look for errors.

This works (proven):

# encoding=utf-8
from Npp import editor

def multiply_by_2(m):
    return 'EngineResponsiveness="' + str(float(m.group(1))*2) + '"'

editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d*.\d+)"', multiply_by_2)

I don’t like how you expect me to know this so quickly its whole new language its would take years in programming or something like that to know so quickly.

We don’t expect you to know all this immediately. What we expect is that you understand that this is a complicated task – not the simple search and replace you assumed – and that it’s really not a problem that should be solved in Notepad++ or any other text editor, but rather in a programming language, and that you should understand we’ve already explained that this forum is not a general “write code for me” forum, or even “help me write my code”. This is about Notepad++, but your discussion has been about a very specific set of data manipulation requirements which we’ve explained multiple times cannot be handled by search-and-replace alone. But you keep on posting as if you expect us to do all this for you. So we keep trying to help you, despite the fact that it’s moved way off topic from a text editor question.

But if we are going to continue to help you – volunteering our time to help you do something that’s only microscopically related to the topic of this forum – then you are going to have to put in the effort. Things like saying Torque Value=70000 when you mean Torque="70000" or saying EngineResponsiveness=0.35 when you mean EngineResponsiveness="0.35" are not helping your cause, and are not putting in the effort. Saying “it didn’t work” or “nothing happened” are not putting in the effort.

If you are going to try random things – which is allowed – you are going to have to show us exactly what you tried when it didn’t work, not some approximation that doesn’t actually match reality.

If you had said

I have the following exact text:
<EngineVariants>
    <Engine

        DamageCapacity="120"

        EngineResponsiveness="0.35"
    >
        ...
    </Engine>
</EngineVariants>
and I ran the exact script
# encoding=utf-8
from Npp import editor

def multiply_by_2(m):
    return 'EngineResponsiveness="' + str(int(m.group(1))*2) + '"'

editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d*.\d+)"', multiply_by_2)
but it did nothing. I think it is not matching the decimal point correctly, so I tried
editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d+.\d+)"', multiply_by_2) instead, but that still didn’t work

If you had said that, we would have had the exact representation of what you had tried, and we could have copy/pasted it into our own Notepad++, and we could have seen that nothing happened for us either.

Instead, you gave text that didn’t match your actual data, and then after much prompting showed a video which we had to click somewhere else to see, that showed you using a regex that we hadn’t suggested (so it was proving your regex bad, if anything, not that the one I supplied was bad). It took me 15 minutes just to watch the video enough and type up some example text and try to recreate the exact circumstances enough to replicate your problem. And then that long again to type things up in a way that I hope you will understand and take to heart.

John Russell

@peterjones said in Very new to notepad++:

@john-russell ,

I found the problem.

The reason it was not changing was because int("0.35") was giving an error message in the PythonScript console that we were not seeing:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp.8.4.2.portable.x64\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\Multiply.py", line 7, in <module>
    editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(.*?)"', multiply_by_2)
  File "C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp.8.4.2.portable.x64\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\Multiply.py", line 5, in multiply_by_2
    return 'EngineResponsiveness="' + str(int(m.group(1)) * 2) + '"'
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '0.35'
You did not read or understand in the example where it said,

To convert the text of a group to a number in python, use int(m.group(1)) to make it an integer, or float(m.group(1)) to make it a floating point number.

You were supposed to then understand that if you want Python to treat the string as a floating point number, you needed to use float(m.group(1)), not int(m.group(1)).

I should have remembered, as soon as you said “nothing happened”, to have you turn on Plugins > Python Script > Show Console to look for errors.

This works (proven):
# encoding=utf-8
from Npp import editor

def multiply_by_2(m):
    return 'EngineResponsiveness="' + str(float(m.group(1))*2) + '"'

editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d*.\d+)"', multiply_by_2)
I don’t like how you expect me to know this so quickly its whole new language its would take years in programming or something like that to know so quickly.

We don’t expect you to know all this immediately. What we expect is that you understand that this is a complicated task – not the simple search and replace you assumed – and that it’s really not a problem that should be solved in Notepad++ or any other text editor, but rather in a programming language, and that you should understand we’ve already explained that this forum is not a general “write code for me” forum, or even “help me write my code”. This is about Notepad++, but your discussion has been about a very specific set of data manipulation requirements which we’ve explained multiple times cannot be handled by search-and-replace alone. But you keep on posting as if you expect us to do all this for you. So we keep trying to help you, despite the fact that it’s moved way off topic from a text editor question.

But if we are going to continue to help you – volunteering our time to help you do something that’s only microscopically related to the topic of this forum – then you are going to have to put in the effort. Things like saying Torque Value=70000 when you mean Torque="70000" or saying EngineResponsiveness=0.35 when you mean EngineResponsiveness="0.35" are not helping your cause, and are not putting in the effort. Saying “it didn’t work” or “nothing happened” are not putting in the effort.

If you are going to try random things – which is allowed – you are going to have to show us exactly what you tried when it didn’t work, not some approximation that doesn’t actually match reality.

If you had said
I have the following exact text:
<EngineVariants>
    <Engine

        DamageCapacity="120"

        EngineResponsiveness="0.35"
    >
        ...
    </Engine>
</EngineVariants>
and I ran the exact script
# encoding=utf-8
from Npp import editor

def multiply_by_2(m):
    return 'EngineResponsiveness="' + str(int(m.group(1))*2) + '"'

editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d*.\d+)"', multiply_by_2)
but it did nothing. I think it is not matching the decimal point correctly, so I tried
editor.rereplace(r'EngineResponsiveness="(\d*\.?\d+.\d+)"', multiply_by_2) instead, but that still didn’t work
If you had said that, we would have had the exact representation of what you had tried, and we could have copy/pasted it into our own Notepad++, and we could have seen that nothing happened for us either.

Instead, you gave text that didn’t match your actual data, and then after much prompting showed a video which we had to click somewhere else to see, that showed you using a regex that we hadn’t suggested (so it was proving your regex bad, if anything, not that the one I supplied was bad). It took me 15 minutes just to watch the video enough and type up some example text and try to recreate the exact circumstances enough to replicate your problem. And then that long again to type things up in a way that I hope you will understand and take to heart.

that this forum is not a general "write code for me" Sadly some people learn this way and I’m one of those people. I don’t do well with text books I’m more hands on kind of guy (Practical Learning).

Just some of the language you were typing was coming off a little aggressive which I’m sure you didn’t mean to be. Heres an example
Are you seriously expecting a search term containing Torque= to match something containing EngineResponsiveness= ?

I just took slight offense to it. I’m human we make mistakes but I understand that you wouldn’t of know that it was a mistake

It would of just come off a bit more friendly if you had said Your mistake is "Your search term need to match 'EngineResponsiveness=' and not read 'Torque+'.

Then I could of just replied oh yeah silly me I typed it wrong in the example shown but I wrote it correctly in the script and is still not working

Anyway thanks for handling this maturely unlike most people on the internet. Good Job and I will take a look at the code you have sent in a little bit :)

John Russell

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Above code works perfectly 😁 Thank You 👍