OK folks, I feel like I'm nearly there, but I have a small outstanding
issue that perhaps you can find it in your heart to help me with.
To recap. I'm trying to write an all-encompassing script that converts
IOS/Xcode localisation files to Android's format. This includes the strings
as well as comment lines.
Examples of rows:
*IOS:*
/* LOGIN */
"login_welcome" = "Welcome to My app";
*ANDROID:*
<!-- LOGIN -->
<string name="login_welcome">Welcome to My App</string>
*CURRENT SCRIPT, BASED ON YOU COOL GUYS GREAT FEEDBACK:*
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*tell* *front* *text window*
*replace* "(\"[^\"]+?\") = \"([^\"]+?)\";" using "<string
name=\\1>\\2</string>" options ¬
{search mode:*grep*, case sensitive:*false*, starting at top:*true*} --
RegEx replacement.
*replace* "/\\*([^*]*?)\\*/" using "<!--\\1-->" options ¬
{search mode:*grep*, case sensitive:*false*, starting at top:*true*}
*replace* "%@" using "%1$s" options {case sensitive:*false*, starting at top
:*true*} -- Literal replacement.
*end* *tell*
*end* *tell*
OK, but I have one outstanding issue.
What I would like is take *everything* between the last to quote signs as
the body of the xml node. However, it doesn't work with escaped characters.
As an example, if I take the above row and change it to
"login_welcome" = "Welcome to \"My App\" "; - it doesn't work.
What I would like is basically "between quote one and two, use in <string
name="">, then everything between quote number three and the ending ' "; '
use as body, then end with </string>.
Does this name sense?
lördag 18 mars 2023 kl. 21:24:40 UTC+1 skrev Kaveh Bazargan:
> All sounds good Mathias. I miss AppleScript. I wrote a lot of it to help
> editing videos. It's just that grep is hard to read as it is!!
>
> Perhaps not relevant, but I recently found Text Factory in BBEdit that
> lets you string lots of greps together...
>
> Regards
> Kaveh
>
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 at 11:45, Mathias <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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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