Hi, everybody, maybe someone has already a solution to this and is willing to share:
More often than I thought I find myself having to replace a bunch of terms in a text file with new text. Doing it by hand means doing several search-replace-actions one after another. Putting together a Text Factory would be a solution but very often the whole replace task is a single one - no need to repeat the exact searches ever again. My idea was to do it with some kind of dictionary file. In it each line would contain a single search replacement pair separated by tabs. Just like: old term<tab>new term some other random old text<tab>another replacement ... Both, search and replacement text is often unsystematic, so doing it with regular expressions is no solution. I tried to fumble together a script that reads such a file (from the desktop, maybe), processes it line by line, searching my current front document for each old term replacing it with the according new value. But I failed. I'm afraid, my capabilities as scripter do not even classify as "Beginner". Does anyone perchance have some code scaffolding or hints on how to do this - I don't mind if it's Applescript, Perl or Python - I suck at all of them :-( Regards, Roland -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
