Aligning "=" using script in UE v13.00

Dawk · Feb 15, 2007#12007-02-15T21:02+00:00

After giving up on writing this as a macro, I decided to try doing it with JavaScript. The following works, although it is a bit slow.

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function getpos()
{
 pos = 0;
 while (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isColNumGt(pos))
 {
 pos++;
 }
 return pos;
}

if (typeof(UltraEdit.columnModeOn) == "function") UltraEdit.columnModeOn();
else if (typeof(UltraEdit.activeDocument.columnModeOn) == "function") UltraEdit.activeDocument.columnModeOn();

var longest = 0;
var pos;
var current;
var padding = "";

UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");

while (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isFound())
{
 current = getpos();
 if (current > longest)
 { 
 longest = current;
 }
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.key("RIGHT ARROW");
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");
}
UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");
while (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isFound())
{
 current = getpos();
 padding = "";
 for (var i = current; i < longest; i++)
 {
 padding += " ";
 }
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.write(padding+"=");
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.key("RIGHT ARROW");
 UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");
}
UltraEdit.activeDocument.bottom();
if (typeof(UltraEdit.columnModeOff) == "function") UltraEdit.columnModeOff();
else if (typeof(UltraEdit.activeDocument.columnModeOff) == "function") UltraEdit.activeDocument.columnModeOff();

Before:

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suggestion = "no idea what to write here"
xp = "quite a bit"
beginning = "hard"
asdf = 1233
// comment line
asdf2 = skumhest

After:

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suggestion = "no idea what to write here"
xp         = "quite a bit"
beginning  = "hard"
asdf       = 1233
// comment line
asdf2      = skumhest

Bego · Feb 22, 2007#22007-02-22T01:04+00:00

Hi dawk,

I tried to enhance your script by a regexp to replace leading blanks before aligning.
Otherwise you get

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a = 12356
bbb = 34566
  ccccccc = 0567567567
 dd = 3344

--> your code

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a         = 12356
bbb       = 34566
  ccccccc = 0567567567
 dd       = 3344

but I want:

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a         = 12356
bbb       = 34566
ccccccc   = 0567567567
dd        = 3344

(or with 2 blanks less before the =)

rds Bego

Aligning "=" using script in UE v13.00

Aligning "=" using script in UE v13.00

Aligning "=" using script in UE v13.00

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