Tony!
Thank you for proposal.
Using Tiddlywiki template and variable substitution makes it very flexible.
I will add this solution to TW-Scripts.
--Mohammad
On Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 5:06:02 AM UTC+3:30, TonyM wrote:
>
> Mohammad,
>
> As is commonly the case, especially in TiddlyWiki, it is important to
> return to why we are asking to do something. It is actually very common for
> people to think search and replaces is the answer when another solution may
> be more valid. In part because a *manual search and replace* is easier
> for one or two cases, *automated replacements* re a better solution for
> multiple cases, so *automating search and replace* is not often overly
> useful.
>
> This does not replace the feature you are looking for, it just potentially
> diminishes the value, or number of occasions it may be needed.
>
> <$set name=first-name value="Mohammad">
> <$set name=last-name value="TheMan">
> <$set name=birthday value="26/12">
> <$set name=salution value="Sir">
>
> <$transclude tiddler="letter-template"/>
>
>
> </$set></$set></$set>
>
> letter-template
> Dear <<salutation>> <<first-name>> <<last-name>>,
>
> We are aware your birthday is on the <<birthday>> and would like to give
> you the following gift, <<giftname>>
> ...
>
> The key to making such productivity gains with TiddlyWiki is to always be
> thinking of how you can capture and represent data in the first place in a
> way that future retrofit or customisation is easier.
>
> I applaud your building the tools for such retrofit, but also think it is
> important to avoid such a need in the first place. In this example if we
> foresaw the need to search and replace something more than once, we can
> consider if we should construct our template instead. If it is only once,
> manual change is cheap and practical.
>
> By the way, if you had not thought of the need to change those values when
> you first wrote the tiddler, perhaps when you identify you need to search
> and replaces rather than change the literal value, change it to a variable
> instead.
>
> So Search for "Mohammad" and replace with <<first-name>>
> or perhaps "Mohammad" and replace with {{!!first-name}}
> would be the optimum approach.
>
> *So perhaps you can ensure any search and replace solution is tolerant of
> Variables and text references, perhaps even substitution variables $param$
> $(variable)$*
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 7:06:44 PM UTC+11, Mohammad wrote:
>>
>> Consider myTid tiddler has the below content:
>>
>> This is a test
>>
>> * one
>> * two
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> and then, the below script does some small processing like adding some
>> prefixes.
>>
>>
>> <$vars x={{myTid!!text}} >
>> <$list filter="[<x>addprefix[xx]]">
>>
>> </$list>
>>
>> And the result:
>>
>>
>> xxThis is a test * one * two
>>
>>
>> Is there any way to keep whitespace and linebreaks?
>> This may seems useless but it is used when you want to process the text
>> filed of a tiddler has paragraphs.
>>
>> --Mohammad
>>
>>
>>
>>
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