On Aug 18, 2011, at 03:23, Mark wrote:
> Does anybody know if there's a way to enter today's date via search and
> replace? I have files with strings like this
> <imported>2009-02-12</imported> and I'm processing them with a text factory
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Hey Mark,
I don't generally fool with Text Factories, so I can't help with the specifics.
Here's how I'd do it with Applescript.
There are 3 different methods for assembling your date, and then the regex.
Oh, I'm accounting for the possibility that you have dates formatted in to ways:
yyyy/m/d
yyyy/mm/dd
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Best Regards,
Chris
--------------------------------------------------------------------
set cDate to current date
--------------------------------------------------------------------
set dateString to short date string of cDate # Dependent upon system date
settings
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set dd to text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & (day of cDate as integer))
set mm to text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & (month of cDate as integer))
set yyyy to year of cDate as text
--------------------------------------------------------------------
set dateString to yyyy & "/" & mm & "/" & dd
--------------------------------------------------------------------
set dateString to do shell script "date \"+%Y-%m-%d\""
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tell application "BBEdit"
try
tell text of front text window
set resultNumber1 to replace ¬
"<imported>\\d{4}-\\d{1,2}-\\d{1,2}</imported>" using ¬
"<imported>" & dateString & "</imported>" options ¬
{search mode:grep, starting at top:true, case sensitive:false}
end tell
on error errMsg number errNum
set sep to "=============================="
set e to sep & return & "Error: " & errMsg & return & sep & return ¬
& "Error Number: " & errNum & return & sep
beep
display dialog e
end try
end tell
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