Custom sequencing

Maciek Schejbal

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Dec 6, 2021, 10:32:53 AM12/6/21

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Hullo BBEdits!

I have 250 images to be shown in the slide show. After I copy the paths, would anybody have a way to automate BBEdit to continue numbering the following sequence?

Many thanks,

Maciek

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Arasmus

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Dec 6, 2021, 2:57:59 PM12/6/21

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Perhaps the easiest way would be to use a spreadsheet to generate the sequence of numbers from 1-250..paste the numbers into an empty text file..search and replace each of the numbers with the figure code.

Tom Robinson

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Dec 6, 2021, 8:11:48 PM12/6/21

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No need for a spreadsheet, BBEdit has a line numbering command :]

1. create document with 250 blank lines

2. Text > Add/Remove Line Numbers. Don’t add spaces or justify — we just want a plain number

3. Do a Grep search for an entire line:

^.*$

Replace with the example HTML below verbatim, except substitute & for the 3 digits:

<figure>\n<img src="images/eq/&.jpeg" width="100%" />\n</figure>\n

4. profit

Christopher Stone

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Dec 7, 2021, 2:33:05 AM12/7/21

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On Dec 06, 2021, at 09:31, Maciek Schejbal <your...@veryniceweb.com> wrote:

I have 250 images to be shown in the slide show. After I copy the paths, would anybody have a way to automate BBEdit to continue numbering the following sequence?

Hey Maciek,

Please provide an accurate sample of the before state of your copied paths.

Once we see that your task should be pretty simple.

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Best Regards,

Chris

Arasmus

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Dec 7, 2021, 2:31:12 PM12/7/21

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Nice! I'd ssearched the manual for "sequence" before posting but missed the line numbers command. Thanks.

Tim A

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Dec 7, 2021, 9:31:59 PM12/7/21

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Still are faced with adding 0 or 00 to numbers less than 100 of the generated line numbers, no? Or is there a buried preference for asserting the number of leading zeros?

Numbers.app allows this with the Cells/Data Format/Numeral System Base and Places

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Tom Robinson

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Dec 7, 2021, 10:24:18 PM12/7/21

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Right, that’s an issue.

You could search for a single digit and replace with 00<digit>, then do the same for double digits — or start at 1000 and remove the leading digit — but easier to use a spreadsheet :]

jj

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Dec 8, 2021, 4:15:15 AM12/8/21

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Execute this snippet of AppleScript with Script Editor:

tell application "BBEdit"
set vContents to ""
repeat with i from 1 to 250
set vNumber to i as string
if i < 10 then
set vNumber to "00" & vNumber
else if i < 100 then
set vNumber to "0" & vNumber
end if
set vContents to vContents & "<figure>\n<img src=\"images/eq/" & vNumber & ".jpeg\" width=\"100%\" />\n</figure>\n"
end repeat
make new document with properties {contents:vContents}
end tell

HTH

Jean Jourdain

Christopher Waterman

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Dec 8, 2021, 9:43:24 PM12/8/21

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I've been trying to get better at awk recently and this seems like an awk kind of problem.

Printing 3 digit numbers with leading zeros is definitely a problem printf is just sitting there waiting for.

Go Text • Run Unix Command and paste in paste in this command into the dialog:

seq 250 | awk '{printf "<figure>\n<img src=\"images/eq/%03d.jpeg\" width=\"100%%\" />\n</figure>\n", $0}'

On Monday, December 6, 2021 at 7:32:53 AM UTC-8 Maciek Schejbal wrote:

Maciek Schejbal

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Dec 8, 2021, 10:14:53 PM12/8/21

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Jean,

Your script worked like a dream, many thanks!

And thank you all for participating.

Best,

Maciek

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