Find and replace using wildcard

I've inserted table content using Insert/Table Objects/Insert Tabular Data in DWCS3 and want to remove unwanted code from the table insert.
Example:
<td width=156 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FF8A50;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
The text between "width" and "Arial'" varies but these two start and end words are the same in each instance to be replaced - how can I find and replace using a regular expression wildcard? Have researched on web but not come across answer yet. I thought it might be simple and hopefully it is and I'm just having a shocker. Is it something like Find: "<td [^"]*> and Replace with: "<td>"? Am I close?
I'd appreciate anyone's help and thankyou in advance for your time.

You might be able to sort this out with Commands > Clean Up Word HTML.
However, the following regular expression should also do what you're looking for (make a backup first). Put this in the Find field:
(<td)[\w\W]+?Arial\'(>)
Put this in the Replace field:
$1$2
Select "Use regular expression".

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Find and Replace using Wildcards

I am following the procedure outlined in Trent’s Blog:
http://www.trentmueller.com/blog/search-and-replace-wildcard-characters-in-dreamweaver.htm l
This is fantastic stuff and will really help me.
I have a few (but only a few) times had success.
It says to “Use regular expression.” What does that mean? What is an “irregular expression?” I have tried with the box checked and unchecked. Usually with the box checked it will not Find my string. I uncheck the box and it sometimes does.
Example:
Link to www.schembs.com/TEST_jds_1.html
At the moment all the Cases are identical. I have not uploaded the .css to the site so the right-most formating is not properly displaying. It does work when the .css is available.
In the source code I literally copy the line of code:
Joh. Heinrich Schöm (1713-1785) 1.
and paste it into the Find box of F&R. I then put my cursor above the line and it does not Find it, giving me the “Done. Not found in current document.” response. I uncheck the “Use regular expression” box and it will find it.
THEN,
I try using a wildcard (with the box checked), Finding:
([^<]*)
or
[^”]*
and it will find the misc. lines, e.g. where the text is “Case #1”, but not the lines of interest, with Heinrich’s name. With the box unchecked it Finds nothing.
Really would appreciate help. Thanks.
jds

jds zigzag wrote:
It says to “Use regular expression.” What does that mean?
A regular expression is a pattern for matching text. It uses a combination of literal characters and special symbols or sequences of characters (technically called metacharacters or metasequences) to represent such things as the beginning and end of a line or any alphanumeric character. For example, \d represents any number (single digit), \d* represents zero or more numbers in sequence.
I have written a tutorial series on using regular expressions in Dreamweaver here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/regular_expressions_pt1.html.
I try using a wildcard (with the box checked), Finding:
([^<]*)
or
[^”]*
They're not wildcards, but regular expressions. The first part matches the literal characters . The next sections use metacharacters.
([^<]*) matches zero or more characters (and as many as possible) that don't include an opening angle bracket (<). The parentheses "capture" the value that's matched so it can be used in a replace sequence.
[^"]* matches zero or more characters (and as many as possible) that don't include a double quote. There are no parentheses, so the value is not captured for reuse.
The closing matches those literal characters.
Regular expressions are not easy, but they're extremely powerful, and a good skill to acquire.

Find and Replace using Behaviors

I used Find and Replace in CS3 to add HTML code that includes
a DW Behavior. The behavior opens a message popup when clicked.
The Find and Replace works and by adding the Behavior code
correctly. However, when I save the page and then click the link to
test the behavior, the popup does not appear.
The only way I can get the Behavior to work correctly is to
complete the Find and Replace, double-click to open the Behavior
from the Tag group, close the behavior and then resave the page.
Is this a DW problem or am I doing something wrong?

You are probably not adding all the necessary code during the
search and
replace. What exactly are you pasting in?
Alec
Adobe Community Expert

Find and Replace using specific tags

is there a way to find-and-replace my <a href= ""> to
equal whatever is in their nested <img src> tag?
for example, if i have a photo gallery with:
<a href="url1.htm"><img src="imagea.jpg"
/></a>
<a href="url2.htm"><img src="imageb.jpg"
/></a>
<a href="url3.htm"><img src="imagec.jpg"
/></a>
is there a way to make it turn into:
<a href="imagea.jpg"><img src="imagea.jpg"
/></a>
<a href="imageb.jpg"><img src="imageb.jpg"
/></a>
<a href="imagec.jpg"><img src="imagec.jpg"
/></a>

Short answer is no. There is no wildcard type functions in
the replace
command.
Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net
"bwcb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:eduj5o$lro$[email protected]..
> is there a way to find-and-replace my <a href= "">
to equal whatever is in
> their nested <img src> tag?
>
> for example, if i have a photo gallery with:
> <a href="url1.htm"><img src="imagea.jpg"
/></a>
> <a href="url2.htm"><img src="imageb.jpg"
/></a>
> <a href="url3.htm"><img src="imagec.jpg"
/></a>
>
> is there a way to make it turn into:
> <a href="imagea.jpg"><img src="imagea.jpg"
/></a>
> <a href="imageb.jpg"><img src="imageb.jpg"
/></a>
> <a href="imagec.jpg"><img src="imagec.jpg"
/></a>
>
>

Find and replace with wildcard

help.. i had my site hacked and they stuck a script at the
end of every file and i need to do a find and replace to remove all
of that coding.
the problem is that the coding is different on every page and
i dont want to have to remove it from 1000+ pages.
i'm pretty sure you can do this with dreamweaver.. all of the
bogus coding is after the </html> at the end of the page.
can anyone help?
here is an example of the coding:
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tyankee wrote:
> help.. i had my site hacked and they stuck a script at
the end of every file
> and i need to do a find and replace to remove all of
that coding.
>
> the problem is that the coding is different on every
page and i dont want to
> have to remove it from 1000+ pages.
>
> i'm pretty sure you can do this with dreamweaver.. all
of the bogus coding is
> after the </html> at the end of the page.
>
> can anyone help?
>
> here is an example of the coding:
>
>
>
Find <\/html>.*
Replace with:</html>
Use: RegEx
Mick

Regular Expression Find and Replace with Wildcards

Hi!
For the world of me, I can't figure out the right way to do this.
I basically have a list of last names, first names. I want the last name to have a different css style than the first name.
So this is what I have now:
AAGAARD, TODD, S. 
AAMOT, KARI, 
AARON, MARJORIE, C. 
and this is what I need to have:
AAGAARD , TODD, S. 
AAMOT , KARI, 
AARON , MARJORIE, C. 
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Make a backup first.
In the Find field use:
(\w+),\s+([^<]+)<\/b>\s* 
In the Replace field use:
$1 $2 
Select Use regular expression. Light the blue touch paper, and click Replace All.

How to find and replace using AppleScript for TextWrangler?

I ran into a problem after exporting my book into EPUB from Indesign CS4. In this book the Latin diphthong æ is used. Unfortuately it didn't translate very well into the EPUB or corresponding XHTML files. Is there a way to do a batch change using AppleScript to change these symbols √¶ into æ which is the code for the diphthong? If so, how?
I also have an issue with the symbol †, in some of the documents it appears as this ‚Ä†. Can I do a batch change for that as well? If so, how?
I'm new to using AppleScript so I appreciate all of the help. Thank you so much!!

Hello
Here's some observations -
æ = U+00E6
= <c3 a6> (UTF-8)
= <c3 a6> (MacRoman) = √¶
† = U+2020
= <e2 80 a0> (UTF-8)
= <e2 80 a0> (MacRoman) = ‚Ä†
which likely mean that your source data is text in UTF-8 but destination (or viewer or intermediate converter) is interpreting the data as text in MacRoman.
Make sure you properly declare the encoding of XHTML or EPUB document as UTF-8.
Good luck,
H

XML tag markers moved: Find and Replace causing problem in xml elements

Hi All,
I am doing find and replace using GREP. While using the expression like $1, $2 (Found Items) in the change to field it changes the placement of tag marker. If the found item is a part of two of more xml elements, I am getting a serious problem while replacing it. (ie. The xml tag markers are moved.)
See the screen shot below, then you may get better idea. And help me to overcome this issue.
This is just an example to show you what i'm trying to say, there are so many cases like this.
Original text/ Before doing find replace
After replacing
Green4ever

Hi Peter and John,
but it seems to me that the example is looking for any space that
follows a semi-colon and has two word characters following it, and
repalce that with an em space. I think you could do the same using look
behind and look ahead and not need to replace the found text.
Yes you are right about the look behind and look ahead. I'd like to show some more examples to show what the actual problem is,
Original/Before Replacing,
(Consider there is another case here, instead of em-space some times normal word space will also be there)
Using the Grep:
Find What---------> ^(\d+\.(?:\d+)?)~m
Change To------------->$1\t
After Replace:
Did I make any sense? Eventhough this will not make any changes in the layout, my requirement is to insert the tab out-side the tag marker not indise.
Green4ever

Jakarta POI find and replace

hello ,Im trying to make find and replace using POI
the problem Im having that Im able to replace all of the text of a range ,I would like to replace only one word
thank you in advance
here is a snap of my code
try {
 doc = new HWPFDocument(new FileInputStream(jTextFieldFileName.getText()));
// WordExtractor extractor = new WordExtractor(doc);
// extractor.get
 } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 } catch (IOException ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 Range r = doc.getRange();
 for (int x = 0; x < r.numSections(); x++)
 System.out.println("this is section "+x+" out of / "+r.numSections());
 Section s = r.getSection(x);
 for (int y = 0; y < s.numParagraphs(); y++)
 System.out.println("this is paragraph "+y);
 Paragraph p = s.getParagraph(y);
 for (int z = 0; z < p.numCharacterRuns(); z++)
 System.out.println("this is char "+z);
 //character run
 CharacterRun run = p.getCharacterRun(z);
 //character run text
 String text = run.text();
 st= new StringTokenizer(text);
 while(st.hasMoreTokens())
 find= st.nextToken();
 if(find.compareToIgnoreCase("[name]")==0)
 run.insertAfter("hoooo");
 try {
 doc.write(new FileOutputStream(jTextFieldOutPut.getText()));
 } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 } catch (IOException ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 // show us the text
 System.out.print(text);
 System.out.println("am out of the section");
 System.out.println("end of process ");

William_Donelson wrote:
> The "Find and Replace" dialog window has got to be the
most obnoxious bit of
> programming I've seen, even by Macromedia standards.
>
> 1) Are there any command-keys that work with it, e.g. to
CLOSE it from the
> keyboard without having to mouse up to the "Close"
button ?
>
> 2) Is there a way to type Cmd-F and then type the string
to search for AND
> HAVE it actually go into the "Find" field in the window?
(I've typed Cmd-F then
> a string 1,000 times, only to see that the string has
NOT gone into the search
> field, UNLESS the dialog was previously closed. And
there's no Keyboard command
> to close the window either, see (1) above)
>
> Thanks!
>
> William
Command . (Command Period) closes box, as in any mac
programme.
Mick

Multi search and replace using excel file

I am trying to use a script to open multiple indesign files and perform several find and replaces using a delimited word file containing the searches, this script, plagerised from a quark one, opens files but doesnt S&R, can anybody see the error of my ways?
-- Indesign docs
set QFolder to "Please locate the folder containing your Indesign documents..."
set Doc_Folder to (choose folder with prompt QFolder) as text
set theFiles to {}
tell application "Finder"
tell folder Doc_Folder
repeat with i from 1 to count of files
if file type of file i is "IDd5" then
set end of theFiles to file i as text
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
-- Search Items
set QFile to "Please locate your Tab Delimited Text file..."
set Search_File to (choose file with prompt QFile) as text
set Search_Rows to read file Search_File using delimiter {return}
set Search_Items to {}
repeat with This_Row in Search_Rows
set end of Search_Items to my GetTextItem(This_Row as text, tab, 0)
end repeat
--Process
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
activate
--Clear the find/change preferences.
repeat with oneFile in theFiles
open file oneFile
set find text preferences to nothing
set change text preferences to nothing
--Set the find options.
set case sensitive of find change text options to true
set include footnotes of find change text options to true
set include hidden layers of find change text options to false
set include locked layers for find of find change text options to true
set include locked stories for find of find change text options to true
set include master pages of find change text options to true
set whole word of find change text options to true
tell document 1
repeat with ThisPair in Search_Items
set {searchstring, replaceString} to ThisPair as list
tell every story
try
set (every text where it is searchstring) to replaceString
end try
end tell
end repeat
end tell
close document 1 saving yes
end repeat
end tell
on GetTextItem(ThisString, ThisDelim, ThisItem)
-- ThisString -> String to look in
-- ThisDelim -> Text element that delimit the string
-- ThisItem -> Number of the element to return (0 for all)
copy the text item delimiters to OldDelims
set the text item delimiters to ThisDelim
if class of ThisItem is list then
set fromItem to (item 1 of ThisItem) as integer
set toitem to (item 2 of ThisItem) as integer
set arrItem to (text items fromItem thru toitem of ThisString)
else
set arrItem to every text item of ThisString
end if
set the text item delimiters to OldDelims
if class of ThisItem is list then
return arrItem as text
else
if ThisItem is not equal to 0 then
return (item ThisItem of arrItem) as text
else
return arrItem -- return every items
end if
end if
end GetTextItem
Thanks

I can't check your script right now since I'm not on Mac. I recommend you to use FindChangeByList script for CS4 instead (it works with CS3): http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2080627-12695/FindChangeByListCS4.zip together with Martin Fisher's: http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/downloads/RecordFindChange_CS3_Kas.zip
Use this script to record settings from Text and GREP tabs, then copy and paste them into FindChandgeList.txt file.
Or, optionally you can use this script: http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/find_change_by_queries.html.
Kasyan

How to use Microsoft Word's Find and Replace with HTML tags?

Hello to all!
I'm trying to figure out how to use the find and replace function in Word to replace html tags. I'd like to be able to change something like this:
random text
To something like this:
random text
I want to replace the open and close tags without changing or interfering with the text between the tags. I'm pretty sure I should use wildcards, but I can't figure out how to use them properly.
Anyone able to lend a hand?

Here is my latest regular expression with Perl. I think it matches the spirit of the request in the original post.
Note, this isn't as easy as you think. You need to code up the complete set of html rules in you implementation. You need to allow for a certain amount of mal-formed html.
perl -0660pe 's^<[sS][pP][aA][nN]\s+class="B01-K-ITAL"\s*>(.*?)</[sS][pP][aA][nN]>^$1^gs' i.html >|o.html
input text
<html> <head>...</head> <body>I'd like to be able to change something like this: #1 one line I want to replace the open and close tags without changing or interfering with the text between the tags. I'm pretty sure I should use wildcards, but I can't figure out how to use them properly. note, this isn't as easy as you think. You need to code up the complete set of html rules in you implementation. You need to allow for a certain amount of mal-formed html. #2 don't be greedy $3 multiline text #4 multiline tag. I believe html allow a carriage return in white space of tags #5 split after the class tag. optional white space #6 mixed case tag no text #7   This browser is IE. This browser is not IE.</body> </html>
output text
<html> <head>...</head> <body>I'd like to be able to change something like this: #1 one line I want to replace the open and close tags without changing or interfering with the text between the tags. I'm pretty sure I should use wildcards, but I can't figure out how to use them properly. note, this isn't as easy as you think. You need to code up the complete set of html rules in you implementation. You need to allow for a certain amount of mal-formed html. #2 don't be greedy $3 multiline text #4 multiline tag. I believe html allow a carriage return in white space of tags #5 split after the class tag. optional white space #6 mixed case tag no text #7   This browser is IE. This browser is not IE.</body> </html>

Use VBA and Excel to open Dreamweaver HTML (CS5), find and replace text, save and close

I wish to use VBA and Excel to programmatically open numbered Dreamweaver HTML (CS5) and find and replace text in the code view of these files, save and close them.
I have 5000 associations between Find: x0001 and Replace: y0001 in an Excel sheet.
I have the VBA written but do not know how to open, close and save the code view of the ####.html files. Please ... and thank you...
[email protected]

This is actually the code view of file ####.html that I wish to find and replace programmatically where #### is a four digit number cataloguing each painting.... In 1995 I thought this was clever... maybe not so clever now :>)) Thank you for whatever you can do Rob!
!####.jpg!
h2. "Name####"
Oils on acrylic foundation commercial canvas - . xx X xx (inches) Started
Back of the Painting In Progress </body> </html>
Warmest regards,
Phil the Forecaster, http://philtheforecaster.blogspot.ca/ and http://phils-market.blogspot.ca/

Using applescript for Find and Replace All in Pages 2.0

i saw that Pages 2.0 is scriptable
i try to create a script for merge use to find and replace all occurence of a certain string using a script but Pages doesn't seems to respond to "Find" even using "System Events"
how can i do to use this function with a script
Thanx for any help
S.B.
ibook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

OK, here's another example. This one gets the text as a string and uses the offset property to find "[", presuming it to be a merge delimiter. (Pages' text doesn't support "offset of").
One failing of this scheme is that the offsets are incorrect if you have inline objects (pictures, shapes, tables, etc.). While it is probably possible to compensate for them, that's a trickier proposition.
<PRE>-- Example merge replacements:
property mergeText : {"[name]", "John Smith", "[address]", "1234 Anystreet"}
on lookup(mergeWord)
set theCount to count of mergeText
repeat with x from 1 to theCount by 2
if item x of mergeText = mergeWord then
return item (x + 1) of mergeText
end if
end repeat
-- If merge field is not found, delete it (replace it with the empty string)
return ""
end lookup
tell application "Pages"
repeat
tell body text of document 1
-- Get text as a string so that "offset of" can be used.
set allText to it as string
set startOffset to offset of "[" in allText
if (startOffset = 0) then
exit repeat
end if
set endOffset to offset of "]" in allText
select (text from character startOffset to character endOffset)
end tell
set mergeWord to contents of selection
tell me to lookup(mergeWord)
set replacement to result
set selection to replacement
if (replacement is "") then
-- Get rid of extra whitespace (space or return)
-- Do it in a "try" block to handle edge cases at start or end of text.
try
set theSel to (get selection)
set ch1 to character before theSel
set ch2 to character after theSel
if ((ch1 is " " or ch1 is return) and (ch2 is " " or ch2 is return)) then
select character after theSel
delete selection
end if
end try
end if
end repeat
end tell</PRE>
Titanium PowerBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

[Forum FAQ] How to find and replace text strings in the shapes in Excel using Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
is available for representing the entire Microsoft Excel application, we can invoke the relevant Properties and Methods to help us to
interact with Excel document.
The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
You can use the PowerShell script below to list the text in the shapes and replace the text string to “text”:
$text = “text1”,”text2”,”text3”,”text3”
$Excel
= New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $true
$Workbook
= $Excel.workbooks.open("d:\shape.xlsx")
#Open the excel file
$Worksheet
= $Workbook.Worksheets.Item("shapes")
#Open the worksheet named "shapes"
$shape = $Worksheet.Shapes
# Get all the shapes
$i=0
# This number is used to replace the text in sequence as the variable “$text”
Foreach ($sh in $shape){
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text
# Get the textbox in the shape
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text =
$text[$i++]
#Change the value of the textbox in the shape one by one
$WorkBook.Save()
#Save workbook in excel
$WorkBook.Close()
#Close workbook in excel
[void]$excel.quit()
#Quit Excel
Before invoking the methods and properties, we can use the cmdlet “Get-Member” to list the available methods.
Besides, we can also find the documents about these methods and properties in MSDN:
Workbook.Worksheets Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835542(v=office.15).aspx
Worksheet.Shapes Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff821817(v=office.15).aspx
Shape.TextFrame Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839162(v=office.15).aspx
TextFrame.Characters Method (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195027(v=office.15).aspx
Characters.Text Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838596(v=office.15).aspx
After running the script above, we can see the changes in the figure below:
Figure 2.
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Thank you for the information, but does this thread really need to be stuck to the top of the forum?
If there must be a sticky, I'd rather see a link to a page on the wiki that has links to all of these ForumFAQ posts.
EDIT: I see this is no longer stuck to the top of the forum, thank you.
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Is there is a way to change the "Find and Replace" feature in Numbers 3.2 back to the way it used to be on Numbers '09 version 2.3?

In order to view my documents on my newly purchased Macbook Air I recently had to upgrade my 27" iMac to Numbers 3.2. The new version does fine for what I use it for except the new "find and replace" feature...It is TERRIBLE! It is so much slower than the older version. Plus I loved how the older version showed a table of all the matching word or items you're searching for and you could easily scroll through them to find the one that you were searching for.
My question is: Can you change the Find and Replace feature back to the way it used to be in version 2.3 or Number '09? If so, please show me how. I would really appreciate it.
The image below shows the new version on the left and the old version on the right just in case you don't know what I'm talking about...
Thank you.

Hi The.Gav,
Sad to say, but that feature has gone in Numbers 3.2
This discussion may help (or not)
Numbers - How use Find like the previous version?
Regards,
Ian.

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