Huge thanks Bruce. You guys are insane at grep'ing, sed'ing etc. The
answers I've gotten in here are like machine code sometimes. :)
Kaveh, the reason I use AppleScript is because I've used it outside BBEdit
in the past, so I'm most familiar with that setup. I've gotten solid
evidence in here previously that it's probably not the best tool for the
job, but when you deal with this stuff once every three years you kind of
don't have time to learn something new... (I probably should I guess).
Again, thanks.
fredag 17 mars 2023 kl. 16:18:21 UTC+1 skrev Kaveh Bazargan:
> Thanks Bruce. I am familiar with grep and use it a lot. Also used a lot
> of AppleScript in the past but no regex in that.
>
> It's just that the extra escape and all the verbosity in AppleScript makes
> it painful to decode!
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 14:30, Bruce Van Allen <b...@cruzio.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 <ka...@rivervalley.io>
>> 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 <b...@cruzio.com> 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 <b...@cruzio.com> 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 <mat...@lightlabs.se> 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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