How do I specify that the ReplInFiles command is to search the Project?

There doesn't seem to be any mechanism to do this?

Recording the macro merely compounds the uncertainty...

TIA,
Paolo

Calm down. The Replace In Files dialog has the option "Project Files". The macro command ReplInFiles also supports the option ProjFiles although it is not listed in the help and not correct recorded. I will report these issues.

Now I switched back from v12.10b to v12.10a because the preliminary version 12.10b of UE, a mixture of v12.10a and UEStudio v6.00 has really more new problems than solved problems. Only the help and maybe also the FTP/SFTP feature (not tested because never use) is better in v12.10b.

The ProjFiles option is NOT recorded by the recorder - that's why I posted the note...

It does look as though 12.10b is seriously broken... Like you, I'm going back to 12.10a...

Paolo

PaoloFCantoni wrote:The ProjFiles option is NOT recorded by the recorder.

Correct and also reported by me to IDM yesterday. There are also some other problems with recording a Find In Files or Replace In Files. Currently a recorded FindInFiles or ReplaceInFiles command must be always edited after macro recording or the macro will not work as expected. The help about these commands was improved but contains still mistakes and missing parameter explanations. I reported these help mistakes yesterday too.

OutputWin should be deleted from the macro because it is in real a FindInFiles parameter.

But the correct Perl regex is really not working in the ReplInFiles command with UE v12.20+1, although it's working when executed with the replace command. So UE v12.20+1 has still problems with Perl regex engine in FindInFiles, ReplInFiles and as I could see also with Replace with All Open Files.

Thanx Mofi... Have you reported the problem already or should I?

The OutputWin was my mistaken attempt to keep a log of changes made...

I'm running a string of 10 (or so) ReplInFiles accross an entire project of 15 folder trees and several hundred files. I need to keep a log of the changes the macro made. It looks as though I can't retain a "longitudinal" log using ReplInFiles. So... Should I preface each ReplInFiles with the equivalent FindInFiles placing the result to new window for each "scan"? I'd then have a record of at least the targets of the changes....

Paolo

PaoloFCantoni wrote:Thanx Mofi... Have you reported the problem already or should I?

I don't have reported it because I don't use Perl. In the past I have reported some general Perl problems, but nothing special like that. I tested today what the IDM developers have fixed in v12.20+1 from my reports and which bugs still exist. Some general Perl related bugs I reported with macro usage are fixed, but some Perl problems still exist.

Your Perl regex ReplInFiles could be also done with the UltraEdit or legacy Unix regex engine. Maybe you use one of the legacy engines as workaround.

UnixReOff
ReplInFiles MatchCase RegExp Recursive Log ProjFiles "" "" "_^([A-Z0-9]+^)_^([~0-9A-Za-z_]^)"
"_^1^2"

or

UnixReOn
ReplInFiles MatchCase RegExp Recursive Log ProjFiles "" "" "_([A-Z0-9]+)_([^0-9A-Za-z_])"
"_\1\2"

I have not really tested it with ReplInFiles, but I think it will work.

Note: This regex will not work for a target word which is at the end of the file without a line termination because no character after the target word.

And my test project file (exactly workspace) does not have files in subdirectories so I could not really test it, but I think the parameter Recursive is not needed with ProjFiles.

PaoloFCantoni wrote:The OutputWin was my mistaken attempt to keep a log of changes made...

No problem. I have detected and also reported some weeks (months?) ago that the macro recorder records the parameter OutputWin for ReplInFiles according to the current state of the Find In Files option "Results to Edit Window". The wrong recorded parameter OutputWin has no influence on the execution of the macro command ReplInFiles.

PaoloFCantoni wrote:I'm running a string of 10 (or so) ReplInFiles accross an entire project of 15 folder trees and several hundred files. I need to keep a log of the changes the macro made. It looks as though I can't retain a "longitudinal" log using ReplInFiles. So... Should I preface each ReplInFiles with the equivalent FindInFiles placing the result to new window for each "scan"?

Yes, the Log option of ReplInFiles reports in the output window only which files are searched for and how many changes are done in any file. It does not report the lines with the changes. The reason is quite simply: Replace In Files can be used also for block replaces or line termination conversions or to change bytes in real binary files as I do sometimes.

So you better run first the 10 (or so) FindInFiles without parameter OutputWin to get a log file with the lines with the strings which are hopefully replaced then by the ReplInFiles commands.

Thanx for that Mofi...

Yes, I did know that that expression could be done in the other two forms but unfortunately it's the only one of the 10 that can...

Anyway, I'll report the problem...

I happened to notice that UE also reports the change count incorrectly...

At the bottom of the output window, it has messages like...

"241 changes in 201 files."

But that's not actually correct... those 241 changes (reviewing the list) occurred in only 3 files.

It should read:
"241 changes in 3 of 201 files."

Should it not?

Paolo

"241 changes in 3 of 201 files." would be really much better.