Find and replace - iterating through a list

Find and replace - iterating through a list

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NewbieNewbie
2

    Nov 18, 2005#1

    Hi there.
    I have a number of files open, containing commented out #define's.

    I also have a list of defines in another file, and for each line in this file,
    I want to search through all the open files, finding the commented out #defines that match those in my list.

    So I'm trying to loop through my macro to do this, and the RegExp I'm using seems to work fine for the first line of the file but I can't get it to continue round the loop, and onto the next line.

    Any ideas?

    Top
    Loop 0
    StartSelect
    Key DOWN ARROW
    Copy
    Paste
    Paste
    EndSelect
    Key UP ARROW
    "%//MY_COMMENT ^([ ]++#[ ]++define[ ]++"
    Key END
    "[~A-Z0-9_]^)"
    StartSelect
    Key HOME
    Cut
    StartSelect
    Key DOWN ARROW
    EndSelect
    Key DEL
    Find RegExp "^c"
    Replace All AllFiles "^1"
    EndLoop

    6,681583
    Grand MasterGrand Master
    6,681583

      Nov 20, 2005#2

      Macro property option Continue if a Find with Replace not found must be enabled. And an exit from the loop is missing.

      Here is you macro with little improvements. The first part of the macro avoids an endless loop, if the last line of the file does not end with a line termination.

      InsertMode
      ColumnModeOff
      HexOff
      UnixReOff
      Bottom
      IfColNum 1
      Else
      "
      "
      EndIf
      Top
      Loop
      StartSelect
      Key DOWN ARROW
      Copy
      Paste
      Paste
      EndSelect
      Key UP ARROW
      "%//MY_COMMENT ^( ++# ++define ++"
      Key END
      "[~A-Z0-9_]^)"
      StartSelect
      Key HOME
      Cut
      Key DEL
      Find RegExp "^c"
      Replace All AllFiles "^1"
      IfEof
      ExitLoop
      EndIf
      EndLoop

      Hope this works, because I could not test it without examples.
      Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria

      2
      NewbieNewbie
      2

        Nov 21, 2005#3

        That did the trick!
        Thanks very much for your help.

        2
        NewbieNewbie
        2

          May 18, 2009#4

          Hi

          I have been trying to adapt this code to meet my requirements - but I can't get the behaviour I want.

          I have a file (source file) which lists items I want to delete from a number of other files. It's a straightforward select from the source of the whole line - which might appear in upto 20 files in another directory.

          For example these might be in the source file
          widget/ABC266
          widget/DFF456

          and the destination might be
          woggle27
          woggle56
          woggle33
          widget/ABC266
          widget/DFF456
          wengle88
          wengle104


          so I want to delete the redundant products in the source from multiple other files.

          So it seems to be a simple replace in files - however I am struggling to get the code to work. It seems to have no effect - it doesn't seem to select from the original file and thus doesn't delete from numerous target files.

          InsertMode
          ColumnModeOff
          HexOff
          UnixReOff
          Top
          Loop
          StartSelect
          Key DOWN ARROW
          Copy
          EndSelect
          StartSelect
          Key HOME
          Find RegExp "^c"
          Replace All AllFiles "^1"
          IfEof
          ExitLoop
          EndIf
          EndLoop


          Any ideas?

          6,681583
          Grand MasterGrand Master
          6,681583

            May 20, 2009#5

            InsertMode
            ColumnModeOff
            HexOff
            UnixReOff
            Bottom
            IfColNumGt 1
            InsertLine
            EndIf

            Top
            Loop
            SelectLine
            ReplInFiles Log "C:\Users\Ominous\Desktop\agents\" "*.*" "^s"
            ""
            EndSelect
            Key HOME

            IfEof
            ExitLoop
            EndIf
            EndLoop

            The open file with the list should not be in this directory.
            Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria

            2
            NewbieNewbie
            2

              May 20, 2009#6

              OK - thanks Mofi

              I used your code and added in
              Key DEL
              Key DOWN ARROW
              StartSelect

              so we get

              insertMode
              ColumnModeOff
              HexOff
              UltraEditReOn
              Top
              Loop 0
              SelectLine
              FindInFiles "C:\Users\Ominous\Desktop\agents\" "" "^s
              DeleteLine
              Key DOWN ARROW
              StartSelect
              IfEof
              ExitLoop
              EndIf
              EndLoop

              with this result
              Search complete, found '' 0 time(s). (0 file(s)).

              It's therefore looking for " rather than the text it has selected.

              What it is supposed to do is work on a list of 400 items - start at the top, select the first line and delete that line from multiple files in a directory. Then go to the next line, select that one and replace that text with nothing (ie delete any it find) in multiple files.

              Where have I gone wrong?

              6,681583
              Grand MasterGrand Master
              6,681583

                May 21, 2009#7

                You can't use FindInFiles for your job because this command creates just a list of found lines with the search string in the output window or an edit window. You want to delete the lines from the files. So you need to use ReplInFiles. I have now created a test scenario on my computer and found out a mistake I have made in my last macro. In my previous post the macro has been corrected - see the bold strings.

                Log prevents the appearance of the small info dialog showing you how many lines were deleted in how many files after every Replace In Files operation. You surely don't want to click 400 times on the OK button of this info dialog. Log forces the ReplInFiles command to write the results info into the output window which does not require any user activity. After the macro has finished you see in the output window the result of the last ReplInFiles command which you can ignore.

                The currently selected line can be deleted with command DeleteLine or just Delete. But even better is to just unselect the currently selected line and continue on the line the cursor currently is.

                The first bold block makes sure that the last line of the list file has a line termination to prevent the macro from running into an endless loop if the last line has no line termination.
                Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria