Finding vals in delimited text, copy line, replace some text

cfay · Sep 13, 2007#12007-09-13T00:49+00:00

I am new to macros and have been reading up on how they work. Because I need to get this project done, I was thinking I should post this question and see if someone might be able to point me in the right direction. Once I get into these macros, I am sure I will be able to build and learn.

Anyway, here is the deal:

I have 100's of files. They have comma delimited text and the beginning of each row looks like this:

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0,0,"DOC","014","000031108.doc","","","",
0,0,"DOC","014","000031109.doc","","","",
0,0,"DOC","014","000031110.doc","","","",
0,0,"DOC","014","000031111.doc","","","",
28,0,"ZIP","014","000031112.zip","","",""
28,0,"SCC","014","000031113.scc","","",""
28,0,"TSV","014","000031114.TSV","","",""
28,0,"TXT","014","000031115.TXT","","",""
28,0,"TSV","014","000031116.TSV","","",""
0,0,"IDX","014","000031117.idx","","","",
29,0,"ZIP","014","000031118.zip","","",""
29,0,"MF","014","000031119.MF","","","","
29,0,"CLASS","014","000031120.class","","
29,0,"CLASS","014","000031121.class","","

What I need to do is search the third column for certain extensions, being ones that I want to exclude. I have a list of these extensions. Examples from above are IDX, CLASS, and SCC.

Once I find a row that has one of those extensions, I want to copy that whole line to a new file (all rows into 1 file)
Then I want to replace the third, fourth and fifth columns with replacement text - always the same.

So this:
29,0,"CLASS","014","000031121.class","","

would become this:
29,0,"TIF","","PlaceHolder.TIF","","

Does this make sense? I have been reading a bunch of your posts and I am guessing this will be a breeze for all you experts. Since I have never made a (successful) macro in ue, I have not gotten there yet.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Sep 13, 2007#22007-09-13T06:31+00:00

Well, I am not sure if I just need to be patient for someone to be able to reply or I just explained poorly. Anyway, I have a macro that partly works. If anyone can help with the issues, I would love it.

Here is what I have:

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InsertMode
ColumnModeOn
HexOff
UnixReOff
Find "TIFF"^p"
Replace All ""
Find "Hold"^p
Replace All ""
Find "CollectionID=0"
Replace All "CollectionID=1234"
Find "DocumentTextFile"^p
Replace All ""
Find "ExternalID=31"
Replace All "ExternalID=15"
Find "mar"
Key HOME
Key SHIFT
StartSelect
Key END
Copy
Open "\\Path1\Path2\Vol007\Copy of Vol007-ExcludedFiles_IncludedRecords.txt"
Bottom
IfColNum 1
Else
"
"
EndIf
Paste
"
"
CloseFile Save
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0
EndIf
Find "scr"
Key HOME
Key SHIFT
StartSelect
Key END
Copy
Open "\\Path1\Path2\Vol007\Copy of Vol007-ExcludedFiles_IncludedRecords.txt"
Bottom
IfColNum 1
Else
"
"
EndIf
Paste
"
"
CloseFile Save
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0
EndIf
Find "dms"
Key HOME
Key SHIFT
StartSelect
Key END
Copy
Open "\\Path1\Path2\Vol007\Copy of Vol007-ExcludedFiles_IncludedRecords.txt"
Bottom
IfColNum 1
Else
"
"
EndIf
Paste
"
"
CloseFile Save
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0
EndIf
Find "mid"
Key HOME
Key SHIFT
StartSelect
Key END
Copy
Open "\\Path1\Path2\Vol007\Copy of Vol007-ExcludedFiles_IncludedRecords.txt"
Bottom
IfColNum 1
Else
"
"
EndIf
Paste
"
"
CloseFile Save
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0
EndIf
Find RegExp "0,"scr","*","*.*""
Replace All "0,"TIF","","ExclusionPlaceHolder.TIF"
Find RegExp "0,"mar","*","*.*""
Replace All "0,"TIF","","ExclusionPlaceHolder.TIF"
Find RegExp "0,"dms","*","*.*""
Replace All "0,"TIF","","ExclusionPlaceHolder.TIF"
Find RegExp "0,"mid","*","*.*""
Replace All "0,"TIF","","ExclusionPlaceHolder.TIF"

The only problem that I have is that it is copying lines that are not to be excluded. It also leaves an extra line between each exclusion line that it copies out.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

lol. Thank you,

pietzcker · Sep 13, 2007#32007-09-13T11:43+00:00

Hi, I'm no macros expert, but I can give you a (Perl style) regex that should find only the lines you want.

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^(\d+,\d+,)(?:"(?:IDX|SCC|CLASS)","[^"]+","[^"]+")(.*)$

should work. It will capture the first two columns into backreference \1, ensure that the columns 3-5 match and capture the rest of the line into \2.

So you could search for the above regex and replace with

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\1"TIF","","ExclusionPlaceHolder.TIF"\2

If I do this search/replace manually in your example code, it works without creating extra line feeds.

HTH,
Tim

cfay · Sep 13, 2007#42007-09-13T17:04+00:00

Thanks, I will look at this, although I have never gotten into perl, even a little. Will this copy the line to another file? It looks like perl will let me specify all extensions with a pipe delimiter. I think I can do this, but wanted to understand the part that copies the lines to the other file. Do I put this in as a new macro in ue?

Thank you,

jorrasdk · Sep 13, 2007#52007-09-13T21:02+00:00

It's not Perl, it a regular expression as implemented in Perl. Nothing here copies anything anywhere. You still have to work out a macro that does this.

Using pietzcker's regexp's I have this suggestion for a macro:

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InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
PerlReOn
Clipboard 8
ClearClipboard
Bottom
IfColNumGt 1
"
"
EndIf
Top
Loop 
Find RegExp "^(\d+,\d+,)(?:"(?:IDX|SCC|CLASS)","[^"]+","[^"]+")(.*)\r\n"
IfFound
CutAppend 
Else
ExitLoop
EndIf
EndLoop
Open "C:\temp\Copy of Vol007-ExcludedFiles_IncludedRecords.txt"
Paste 
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0
Top
Find RegExp "^(\d+,\d+,)(?:"(?:IDX|SCC|CLASS)","[^"]+","[^"]+")(.*)$"
Replace All "\1"TIF","","ExclusionPlaceHolder.TIF"\2"

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