Find and replace with cmd line params or multiple clipboards

mrZads · Mar 03, 2006#12006-03-03T14:57+00:00

Hi,

I was wondering if I can easily find and replace strings with a macro where the find and replace string is to be defined through parameters. I found the ^c option with find to get the string from the active clipboard but then I want to switch clipboard to replace the find string with the replace string.

Example:

FIND (text in clipboard 1)
REPLACE ALL (text in clpboard 2)

Thx.

Mofi · Mar 03, 2006#22006-03-03T17:28+00:00

That's not possible. The replace is in real 1 command and not 2. So it's not possible to use clipboard 1 for the find and clipboard 2 for the replace part of the replace command. But there is a workaround for this problem with ^s - selected text.

Top
"Temporarily pasted text from clipboard 1 ends here!"
Key HOME
Clipboard 1
Paste
SelectToTop
Clipboard 2
Find "^s"
Replace All "^c"
Top
StartSelect
Find MatchCase Select "Temporarily pasted text from clipboard 1 ends here!"
Delete
EndSelect

But if you only need this macro for replacing a text in a file run within a batch file, look at the free command line tools Xchang32.exe or Yank32.exe from Clay's Utilities for Win32, Version 1.0 Beta 6 which work fine and are very powerful.