And one last correction (sorry, just woke up and haven't had my coffee yet):
#!/usr/bin/php <?php // Set up the terms $terms = array( 'this' => 'that', 'red' => 'blue', 'stop' => 'go', ); // Break out the find and replace lists $find = array_keys($terms); $replace = array_values($terms); // Get the document contents $filename = "/usr/local/something.txt"; $filehandle = fopen($filename, "r"); $document = fread($filehandle, filesize($filename)); fclose($filehandle); // Perform the find and replace $document = str_replace($find, $replace, $document); // Update the document $filehandle = fopen($filename, "w"); fwrite($filehandle, $document); fclose($filehandle); ?> On Oct 27, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Roland Küffner wrote: > 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> -- 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>
