Yes, double escapes are needed. As handy as Applescript is, quoting is a major
pain point.
‘*’ has special meaning within regular expressions, so it must be escaped when
trying to match a literal ‘*’. So that's the first ‘\’. Then Applescript needs
that ‘\’ escaped, so we get ‘\\*’.
The BBEdit User Manual (PDF download via the Help menu) has a good discussion
of this.
— Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
> On Mar 17, 2023, at 7:23 AM, Kaveh Bazargan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Quick question: For AppleScript you need to double escape, right? so:
> •
> in AppleScript: \\*
> • becomes \* in BBEdit
> • to find "*"
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 13:36, Bruce Van Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oops - I mis-typed one bit: the inner part of the find pattern should be
> “[^*]” - asterisk instead of plus sign.
>
> tell application “BBEdit"
> tell front text window
> replace "/\\*([^*]*?)\\*/" using "<!--\\1-->" options ¬
> {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
> end tell
> end tell
>
>
> — Bruce
>
> _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 17, 2023, at 6:08 AM, Bruce Van Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Here’s a slightly amended version of your script:
> >
> > tell application “BBEdit”
> > tell front text window
> > replace "/\\*([^+]*?)\\*/" using "<!--\\1-->" options ¬
> > {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
> > end tell
> > end tell
> >
> > The differences are:
> >
> > - no parentheses () surrounding the whole find pattern because that becomes
> > the first capture, which you use in the replacement pattern as ‘\1’.
> >
> > - added parens around the inner part of the find pattern, in order to
> > capture what’s between the JS comment markers.
> >
> > - if you needed to keep that outer parens capture for some other reason,
> > then change the replacement pattern to “<!—\\2—>” (assuming that part stays
> > the second parens-capture).
> >
> > - I omitted the replace “%@“ line to keep this part of the script clear.
> >
> > Using the script as I wrote it above
> >
> > /* some commented stuff */ /*some more*/
> >
> > And /* some more*/
> >
> > is transformed in one step into
> >
> > <!-- some commented stuff --> <!--some more-->
> >
> > And <!-- some more-->
> >
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > — Bruce
> >
> > _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 17, 2023, at 3:04 AM, Mathias <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, so I'm working on an apple script to replace Localizable (apple)
> >> comments on the /* ... */ format to <!-- and -->
> >>
> >> I got it working, but I'm using two commands because I couldn't figure the
> >> grep out... can this be simplified with only one "replace" ?
> >>
> >> pointers appreciated, script here:
> >>
> >> tell application "BBEdit"
> >> tell front text window
> >> replace "(/\\*[^\\*]*\\*/)" using "<!--\\1-->" options ¬
> >> {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
> >> replace "(/\\*|\\*/)" using "" options {search mode:grep, case
> >> sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
> >> replace "%@" using "%1$s" options {case sensitive:false, starting at
> >> top:true}
> >>
> >> end tell
> >> end tell
> >>
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