Column Index of Pipelined Lines

Deniz Kasar

Hello,
I have a line like that:
aaa|bbb|ccc|ddd|eee|fff

I want it show me the zero based column index of clicked part.
For example:
when i click to bbb , i want to see 1,
when i click to eee, i want to see 4 on the app window.

I have very long lines. It would be perfect to see its column index. Thank you.

Alan Kilborn

@Deniz-Kasar

If you are willing to use the PythonScript plugin to achieve this, a script that I call ShowDelimitedColIndexOnStatusBar.py is shown below:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function

# references:
#  https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23501/column-index-of-pipelined-lines

from Npp import *

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

class SDCIOSB(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.debug = True if 0 else False
        editor.callback(self.updateui_callback, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.UPDATEUI])

    def updateui_callback(self, args):
        self.print('UPDATEUI:', args)
        cp = editor.getCurrentPos()
        self.sb_output('Column-group index:', len(editor.getTextRange(editor.positionFromLine(editor.lineFromPosition(cp)), cp).split('|')))
        # aaa|bbb|ccc|ddd|eee|fff

    def print(self, *args):
        if self.debug:
            #console.show()
            print('SDCIOSB:', *args)

    def sb_output(self, *args):  # output to N++'s status bar (will be overwritten by N++ e.g. when active tab is changed)
        notepad.setStatusBar(STATUSBARSECTION.DOCTYPE, ' '.join(map(str, args)))

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# to run via another file, e.g., startup.py, put these lines (uncommented and unindented) in that file:
#  import ShowDelimitedColIndexOnStatusBar
#  sdciosb = ShowDelimitedColIndexOnStatusBar.SDCIOSB()

if __name__ == '__main__': SDCIOSB()

When the script is active, it will show the information in the Notepad++ status bar:

Basic information about PythonScripting is found HERE.

Alan Kilborn

@Deniz-Kasar said in Column Index of Pipelined Lines:

when i click to bbb , i want to see 1

Hm, it looks like what I provided would output a 2 in such a circumstance. Simple enough to change the len(...) expression in the code to len(...) - 1…

Deniz Kasar

@Alan-Kilborn
Waov, it is perfectly working. This solution is exactly what i look for. Thank you very much.

Deniz Kasar

@Alan-Kilborn
Hi Alan, i have one last a simple question.

How can i set your script to run on startup? When i close and re-open NP++, your script needs to click to run.

Alan Kilborn

@Deniz-Kasar said in Column Index of Pipelined Lines:

How can i set your script to run on startup?

see the instructions in the script code starting with to run via another file…
and also references to startup script HERE