Re: multi line/word find and replace?

[Thomas Fischer]

Hi Dean,

this is a typical question for scripting, and there are different options with TextWrangler, I use a Perl script.

The easiest way may be to use AppleScript:

set replaceList to {{"hello", "ciao"}, {"goodbye", "arrivederci"}, {"red", "rosso"}, {"car", "perch"}, {"van", "van"}, {"holiday", "vacanza"}}

tell application "TextWrangler"

tell window 1

repeat with thePair in replaceList

replace (item 1 of thePair) using (item 2 of thePair) options {starting at top:true, case sensitive:true, match words:true}

# Check the "Search Options" in TextWrangler's scipting dictionary!

end repeat

end tell

end tell

 

You might want to prune the replacement list from identical replacements first (van -> van). 

And if you want to do this regularly with different replacement lists then you may need to find an efficient way to tell the script which list to use, e.g. by reading a file and creating a list from the data read.

Best

Thomas

Am 13.05.2013 um 04:24 schrieb Dean Avanti:

textwrangler does find and replace for single words, but how about lists of words. Lets say I wanted to translate words in a webpage, I dont want to do one at a time, I want to batch replace words.

for example I add a list

hello
goodbye
red
car
van
holiday

and the words I want to replace them with

ciao
arrivederci
rosso
perch
van
vacanza

I press a button and it changes each word for the one on the right.
Is there an option to replace 'more than one word at a time' and swap 'lists of words'.

(note to mods, Ive posted this question before but it didnt show)

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[Christopher Stone]

On May 12, 2013, at 21:24, Dean Avanti <in...@avantivitastudios.com> wrote:
> Textwrangler does find and replace for single words, but how about lists of words. Lets say I wanted to translate words in a webpage, I dont want to do one at a time, I want to batch replace words.

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Hey Dean,

This is a job for a sed or Perl text filter. You can do it with Applescript, but it will be a bit slow and more cumbersome to write and maintain.

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#! /usr/bin/env perl
use strict; use warnings;
#---------------------------

while (<>) {
s!hello!ciao!gi;
s!goodbye!arrivederci!gi;
s!red!rosso!gi;
s!car!perch!gi;
s!van!van!gi;
s!holiday!vacanza!gi;

print;
}

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#! /usr/bin/env bash

sed '
s!hello!ciao!g
s!goodbye!arrivederci!g
s!red!rosso!g
s!car!perch!g
s!van!van!g
s!holiday!vacanza!g
'

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In both script the 'g' flag stands for global (not just the first instance).

In the Perl script the 'i' flag stands for case-insensitive, and you may want to remove it and do case-sensitive substitution to properly deal with capitalization like so:

s!hello!ciao!g
s!Hello!Ciao!g

Text filters should be installed here:

~/Application Support/TextWrangler/Text Filters/

You run them from the menu {Text}-->{Apply Text Filter}-->{Filter Name}

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Best Regards,
Chris