Replace guid with guid from list randomly

Ali Gaffoor

Good day.

would anyone know how to replace a guid with another guid from a list and do this randomly.

example : “d0ba703e-69d4-4253-9a8c-58668bce4aea” there are multiple of this guid in the file and i would like to replace it with the following in a random pattern:

a3ba621f-884c-4954-87e3-063014e927ff
b56483a2-3962-4d40-adc6-3f98cb4425c4
3b00ca11-db38-4d1d-b1e1-7ad008399919
540e5c95-4d79-4e70-8820-574b931c4a87
6b3fea3f-f5a4-402e-a65a-cc022d733ed4
e757d703-7e0f-49a5-8e11-0b79f2f1f39b
703d5a2f-3793-4e76-a7bf-d5b73231dfff

Mark Olson

The regex gurus on this forum might come up with some kind of crazy regex-based solution to this, but this is pretty easy to solve with PythonScript.

# requires PythonScript: https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/releases
# ref: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25388/replace-guid-with-guid-from-list-randomly

import random
import re
from Npp import editor, notepad, MESSAGEBOXFLAGS

def main():
    thing_to_replace = notepad.prompt('Enter the text you want to replace',
        'enter text to replace', '')
    if not thing_to_replace:
        return
    is_regex = notepad.messageBox(
        'Is the thing you want to replace a regular expression?',
        'regular expression?',
        MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNO) == MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES
    if not is_regex:
        thing_to_replace = '(?-s)' + re.escape(thing_to_replace)
    replacements = notepad.prompt(
        'Enter a list of replacements (one per line)',
        'list of replacements', '')
    if not replacements:
        return
    replacement_list = replacements.strip().splitlines()
    def get_random_from_list(_):
        return random.choice(replacement_list)
    editor.rereplace(thing_to_replace, get_random_from_list)
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()