Massive list and massive search and replace?

nerdyone255

this script is FANTASTIC.

i do have a question though- in the final output it prints how many replacements were made, but is there any way to see what the actual replacements were?

looking into the code i see

“”" if self.num_repl_made_in_this_file > 0:

                self.print('replacing "{fw}" with "{rw}" {n} times'.format(
                    fw=find_what, rw=replace_with, n=self.num_repl_made_in_this_file)) """

but i dont see where that would get printed- it doesnt show up in the python console either

again huge thanks for this one

Alan Kilborn

@nerdyone255 said :

this script is FANTASTIC.

Well…glad you like it.

but i dont see where that would get printed- it doesnt show up in the python console either

The self.print() function calls are really meant as debug helpers while testing the script. Thus, in the version of the script above, they don’t do anything because the debug variable is set to False. If you change the 0 to a 1 in this line:

self.debug = True if 0 else False

or simply change it to:

self.debug = True

then the output of the self.print() calls will go to the PythonScript console window. You’ll see the output you indicated you were interested, plus output from other things that happen while the script is running.

nerdyone255

@Alan-Kilborn perfect!

Yurble Vương

@Alan-Kilborn

Thanks Alan, it work perfectly, Except one specially for me. Appreciate your help if possible:

I want to find only within word boundary.

For example:
Sentence: You are eating apple. The tree have a lot of apples. all the apples is green.
apple->cherry
apples->cherries

Hence, how can I add in a code to made it change only words start or end a transition from space to non-space character (space, common, dot, quote marks, questions mark…).

thanks in advance
Yurble

Alan Kilborn

@Yurble-Vương said in Massive list and massive search and replace?:

how can I add in a code to made it change only words start or end a transition from space to non-space character

You can use \b in the regular expression to insist upon a word boundary; example: \bapple will match have an apple today but will not match have a crabapple today.

Yurble Vương

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Yurble Vương

@Alan-Kilborn

Sorry to ask and bother you. I tried to edit your py code as below, but it seems to be a wrong code. Could you advise how to correct:

Not work:

     # FINALLY, the actual replacement!
                editor.rereplace('\b'+find_what+'\b', replace_with)

Not work 2:

     # FINALLY, the actual replacement!
                editor.rereplace(r'\b'+find_what+'\b', replace_with)

Alan Kilborn

@Yurble-Vương said :

Not work 2

This should work: editor.rereplace(r'\b'+find_what+r'\b', replace_with)

I like how you showed initiative in trying to solve the problem yourself…and you had the right idea, you just didn’t take it far enough.

Yurble Vương

@Alan-Kilborn

Many thanks for help

tszombathy-debaru

Alan it’s fantastic!

At this part: is it possible to enter more files into the filter list?