Search and replace selected text

Is there a way to have search and replace only look in selected text and not the whole document? My problem is, e.g., in a table, the author used x's instead of checkmarks (our preferred). In Word I could highlight the text, search for X to replace with T (which I then set as WP Iconic font to show the T as a checkmark), then tell it to change all, and the x's would be corrected. I can't find that same command in InDesign and, therefore, have to go through each table and replace the X with a T.
Also, is there a way to assign the first rows of an existing table as header (repeating) rows? I know how to tell it I want two header rows, but it creates new rows and I have to copy my text into the "header" rows.
Thanks for all the help I get here!

Both are actually easy to find in the online help ...

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Search and Replace text

Apologies for what is no doubt a simple question - I'm trying to help out IT and I'm not a programmer, although maybe one day...
Anyway, I'm going to need to read a text file, and search for a string in that text file and replace it. I see "replace" as a function but I'm not familiar with how to use it. Poking around I found <cffile action=append> and used that to add a line to a text document. (Just a notepad .txt)
Ultimately I'll need to unzip a folder, search and replace the string in a specific file in there, and then re-zip the file, but we'll get to that later. I managed to unzip a folder already, that's easy enough. Putting it all together is my current challenge.
I'm using ColdFusion Builder 2.0
Thanks for any help you guys can give.

file.txt: Contains several lines that all say "All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy".
<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="myFile">
<cfset myFile = Replace(myFile,"Dull","Bored","all")>
<cffile action="write" file="C:\file.txt" output="#myFile#" addnewline="no" fixnewline="no">
<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="myNewFile">
<cfoutput>#myNewFile#</cfoutput>
^_^

In Pages, how to search and replace text involving invisible characters?

In Pages documents, how to search and replace text involving invisible characters, colors and font sizes—a task which is so easy in Mircosoft Word?

I read that an older version of Pages allowed users to enter special characters in the search/replace fields, but this did not work for me.
Here: http://www.macworld.com/article/1156533/pagesspecialcharacters.html
I still am looking for a way to do this.

How do I search and replace for invisibles in Pages 5.5.2?

Three related problems all involving search and replace for invisibles.
1. A block of text where all double returns need to become single returns.
2. A block of text where all returns need to be replaced with a single word space.
3. A block of text where all double word spaces to be replaced with a single word space.
Pages 09 could do all three this handily. How can these be done in Pages 5.5.2?
Appreciated.

Here are screenshot of my attempts to make reducing double returns to one. First up selection of a double return:
Copy to the clipboard. Do a Command-F. Here's the resulting dialogue:
I paste in the contents of the clipboard:
Note the Search field no longer has an empty slot selected. Something is clearly in there, but no instance of whatever is has been found. Nevertheless, I proceed to set up the Replace field by selecting a single return:
Copy that to the clipboard and paste into the Replace field:
Nothing to search for and therefore nothing to replace. Am now wondering what that little scoop to the right of the eyeglass icon might indicate. Clicking on it reveals this:
Definitely not "a solution that just works."

How do I search and replace in comments in Acrobat XI?

I use a Mac and just downloaded Acrobat Pro XI specifically to search and replace phrases in comments in a large PDF. According to this Adobe Help page, I should be able to do this: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/searching-pdfs.html I copied the relevant section below and marked with ***. However, I don't see I don't see an arrow for the options that would allow me to include comments. I understand how to include the comments with advanced search, but I want to also replace text. I also checked in preferences and searched the forums. Could someone please advise and maybe include a screenshot, if possible. Thanks!
Choose Edit > Find (Ctrl/Command+F).
Type the text you want to search for in the text box on the Find toolbar.
To replace text, click Replace With to expand the toolbar, then type the replacement text in theReplace With text box.
(Optional) Click ***the arrow ***next to the text box and choose one or more of the following:
Whole Words Only
Finds only occurrences of the complete word you type in the text box. For example, if you search for the word stick, the words tick and sticky aren’t found.
Case-Sensitive
Finds only occurrences of the words that match the capitalization you type. For example, if you search for the word Web, the words web and WEB aren’t found.
Include Bookmarks
Also searches the text in the Bookmarks panel.
***Include Comments***
Also searches the text of any comments.

Here are screenshot of my attempts to make reducing double returns to one. First up selection of a double return:
Copy to the clipboard. Do a Command-F. Here's the resulting dialogue:
I paste in the contents of the clipboard:
Note the Search field no longer has an empty slot selected. Something is clearly in there, but no instance of whatever is has been found. Nevertheless, I proceed to set up the Replace field by selecting a single return:
Copy that to the clipboard and paste into the Replace field:
Nothing to search for and therefore nothing to replace. Am now wondering what that little scoop to the right of the eyeglass icon might indicate. Clicking on it reveals this:
Definitely not "a solution that just works."

Search and Replace in Pages 5

Search and Replace in Pages is now seriously regressive. Previously I could search for "invisibles" in a document and globally replace the search "invisible" by a replace one. Now I can't find a way of doing that. Any suggestions?

Try this:
Turn on Show Invisibles in the View menu.
Select (highlight) the double para breaks.
Use Command-E (Find using selected text).
Open the Find dialogue box (Command-F) and select Find & Replace.The selected para breaks will be in the Find text entry box, but will not be visible!
Click in the Replace text entry box.
Select (highlight) a single para break.
Go to the Edit menu / Find and select 'Use selection for replace' (it will not show in the Replace entry box).
In the Find & Replace dialogue box, click on the Forward or Back arrows to highlight the selected items (e.g. double para break) where you wish to start replacing in the document.
Use the Replace All / Replace & Find / Replace buttons as per usual.
Not a nice solution, but I hope it gets you going until Apple restores the previous functionality!

How can I search and replace fonts?

iOS 7 doesn't support the Adobe workhorse fonts I've most relied on for years, and arbitrarily changes them to iOS built-in fonts when I link my standard documents and templates to the iPhone, via iCloud. There's no apparent logic to how it does this; a Pages document in Minion Pro, a serif font, gets changed to the sans-serif Helvetica. Myriad Pro may come out in Times New Roman. I accept that the iPhone's limited number of fonts makes translation necessary, but does Pages offer a way in which I can search and replace inappropriately substituted fonts for more logical alternatives?

You noticed the first one yourself: the Found item list seems to randomly jump around the document -- I believe you are correct in your observation it may be due to the object construction order. That tells me, by the way, something about your lot numbers that tou didn't mention: your text is not one continuous long threaded story, but it's all or partially in disconnected etxt frames. The Found list does return everything inside a single story in the correct order, but it goes over each separate story in the order they were constructed.
The only solution is to gather all of your lot numbers, *re-sort* them according to the page number they appear on (and some sort of Worst Case Scenario is when you might have more than one lot number frame per page; in that case you also need to sort by textframe, top to bottom -- yet even worse is if you also may have these textframes side by side!).
Only then you have a reliable counting order.
This isn't too bad. We can just extend the method I offered for sorting top-to-bottom/left-to-right in Re: Working around the frame selection order issue in CS 4 and make it also include page numbers:
function byPageYX(a,b) {
    var
        aP = a.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.index,
        bP = b.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.index,
        aY = a.baseline[0],
        bY = b.baseline[0],
        aX = a.horizontalOffset[1],
        bX = b.horizontalOffset[1],
        dP = aP-bP,
        dy = aY-bY,
        dx = aX-bX;
    return dP?dP:(dy?dy:dx);
myResults.sort(byPageYX);
Or something like that.
As for actually implementing the above I cannot be of any help with Applescript.
Once we're dealing with sorting I think you're much better off in Javascript anyhow.

Is there any "Search and Replace" option in Crystal Reports?

Is there any option to search and replace in Crystal Reports. Since i am using a name in many of the formulas in crystal reports. I need to replace with the desired name on the go.
Could anyone help me on this....

Search & Replace across formulas is not available in CR XI but is available in CR 2008. Here is an excerpt from the CR 2008 Users Guide:
Searching for formula text
You can use the Find dialog box to carry out a number of different activities:
u2022 Search for text or characters in the Field, Function, or Operator trees.
u2022 Search for text or characters that you want to mark or replace in the
formula, Custom Function, or SQL Expression that you have open.
u2022 Search for text or characters across all SQL Expressions in a report.
u2022 Search for text or characters across all formulas and Custom Functions
in a report.
When you search for text across all formulas, the results appear in a pane
at the bottom of the Formula Workshop. (You can dock the results pane in
other locations). When you click an item in the results pane, Crystal Reports
opens the appropriate formula and highlights the matching text.
Tip: You can open the Formula Workshop to search across all formulas
from the Field Explorer and from the body of a report. To do this, select a
formula field, right-click it, and choose the "Find in Formulas" option.

Perform search and replace in a custom command?

Hello,
Does anyone know how to perform a search and replace for selected text in a custom command?
My specific dilemma is this: I have a large document containing [very poorly formatted] songs. For example:
Verse1 Verse1 Verse1 Verse1 Verse1
Verse1 Verse1 Verse1 Verse1 Verse1
Verse1 Verse1 Verse1 Verse1 Verse1
Chorus Chorus Chorus Chorus
Chorus Chorus Chorus Chorus
Chorus Chorus Chorus Chorus
Verse2 Verse2 Verse2 Verse2 Verse2
Verse2 Verse2 Verse2 Verse2 Verse2
Verse2 Verse2 Verse2 Verse2 Verse2
Verse3 Verse3 Verse3 Verse3 Verse3
Verse3 Verse3 Verse3 Verse3 Verse3
Verse3 Verse3 Verse3 Verse3 Verse3
I would like to be able to select all the text in a verse and run my custom command on it that would remove the "" and replace "" with " ".
Thanks,
Kelso

replaceAll method in String is available only from 1.4 onwards.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#replaceAll(java.lang.String, java.lang.String).
You could use a method to search and replace a String with another...
public String replace (String source, String search, String replace) {
 StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
 int start = 0;
 int index = 0;
 while ((index = source.indexOf(search, start)) >= 0) {
 result.append(source.substring(start, index));
 result.append(replace);
 start = index + search.length();
 result.append(source.substring(start));
 return result.toString();
}

Case insensitive search and replace using ASP and Oracle database

I am interested in providing a case insensitive search and replace query in a Active server page. At present data is collected from a html form which passes the text values to a ASP page. The ASP page runs a search (select query) to find if the data is already in the Oracle database, if it isn't the ASP page runs sql (INSERT) to insert the record, if not the page returns a form indicating that the record already exists. At present we can convert the case of new records using the VB UCase() function. But can't do a insensitive search with the existing records. *The Query must be able to utilize ASP variables.
Any help would be much appreciated.
David Cheryk
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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

Global search and replace on large-scale multi-user sites

Is there a way for Dreamweaver to select only the files that
are found when using the find and replace facility? This would make
updating large websites a lot easier.
From time to time I need to perform small changes to text or
code (that obviously is not contained in an include file or library
item) sitewide. As the site is administered by multiple users, it
uses the check-in/check-out system, which means that before editing
a file, it needs to be checked out. Thus, we can't just use search
and replace directly, we have to check out the relevant files
before performing the replace routine. The problem is selecting
only those files which will be affected by the search and replace
(and perform the operation in minutes) rather than selecting
everything (and spending hours).
Since it seems one is unable to select only files that appear
in the search results, I have to manually identify the folder that
holds the files with the results, and then check it out. As the
files which need to be edited might be scattered around the whole
site, this often means that I have to check out whole folders close
to the site root. The check-out command will include everything in
a folder, and the site contains thousands of files (which has to be
checked back in afterwards), so obviously this is a heavy and
time-consuming operation.
Does anyone know if DW has a way of selecting only the
relevant documents, or have suggestions for other ways of doing
this? I get the feeling that this is most easily achievable by
using tools outside DW, but I hesitate to go outside DW since it
would interfere with DW's site managment system.

I don't think you will find anyone here with such experience,
not the least
reason being that Library items run out of useful steam at
about 100 pages.
To use them on larger sites is just too tedious and risky,
honestly. Is
there any possibility to change to server-side includes?
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>
> The same problem applies to editing library items. I
need to update a
> library
> item that will affect 200+ files (on a website that has
thousands). Being
> able
> to select only those 200 for check out before editing
would be a lot
> easier
> than having to check out the entire 500 MB site....
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Search and Replace NTFS permissions by SID

About to pick up a file server out of an SBS domain and drop it into a new domain.
When I drop the server into the new domain it will break all the permissions and they will just be SIDs
Are there any tools or scripts (paid or not) that let me do something like a SID based search and replace within NTFS permissions?
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Andrew
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Try this:
Turn on Show Invisibles in the View menu.
Select (highlight) the double para breaks.
Use Command-E (Find using selected text).
Open the Find dialogue box (Command-F) and select Find & Replace.The selected para breaks will be in the Find text entry box, but will not be visible!
Click in the Replace text entry box.
Select (highlight) a single para break.
Go to the Edit menu / Find and select 'Use selection for replace' (it will not show in the Replace entry box).
In the Find & Replace dialogue box, click on the Forward or Back arrows to highlight the selected items (e.g. double para break) where you wish to start replacing in the document.
Use the Replace All / Replace & Find / Replace buttons as per usual.
Not a nice solution, but I hope it gets you going until Apple restores the previous functionality!

Using a variable in a Powershell search and replace string

Hi
a couple of days ago I posted a question about doing a search and replace with wildcards
Search and repalce with Widcards
I got a swift and very helpful answer but now I need to build on it.
In a text file I wanted to replace all the text between two defined words. the script I got was this
$text = 'Some Server this bit of text varies Language stuff'
$text -replace '(.*Server) .+? (Language.*)','$1 it will always say this $2'
It works great but now I want to replace "it will always say this" with a variable and I can't figure out the correct grammar to make this happen.
Can anyone help??
Thanks
Alex

Here's one way:
$replace = 'it will aways say this'if ( $text -match '(.*Server) .+? (Language.*)' )
{ "{0} $Replace {1}" -f $matches[1,2] }
else { $text }
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HTML character entities problem in saved regex search and replace query

I have a many search and replace regular expression queries (.dwr files) that I have saved. I have a problem specifically with saved queries that contain HTML entities such as "& nbsp ; " or "& shy ;" (spaces added otherwise code doesn't render in browser). For example if I use the following search:
([\d]{3}& shy ;[\d]{3}& shy ;[\d]{4}|[\d]{3}& nbsp ;[\d]{3}& nbsp ;[\d]{4})
(which searches for numbers in the 888-555-1234 or 888 555 1234 formats)
This will work fine if I manually enter it into the search text area. However if I save it to file and reload it, it will no longer work because the  and characters are now displayed as " " (space) and "-"(shy) rendering the saved query useless as it's no longer searching for the code. I have some fairly long and complex queries and this is becoming a problem.
Thanks for any help.
I'm currently using Dreaweaver CS4 at home and CS5.5 at work.

Thanks for your reply Kenneth, but that is not what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm looking for the HTML entities that exist in the source code which are & shy ; and & nbsp ; (without the spaces). As I mentioned above, if I enter them manually in the search box, I will get the corrrect results. If I save the search and then reload it, the special characters are no longer in HTML and the search is now useless.
Just for example again
In an open document in code view insert a number in the format (without the spaces): 888& nbsp;888& nbsp ;8888
Open a search dialog box and enter (without the spaces): [\d]{3}& nbsp ;[\d]{3}& nbsp ;[\d]{4}
The search will find that entry.
Save search as phone.dwr for example. Then load it and try the search again. It won't work because upon loading the search Dreamweaver replaces the HTML code which was saved with the rendered HTML. So now the search shows up as: [\d]{3} [\d]{3} [\d]{4} which will not find the string with hard coded non-breaking spaces that I'm looking for.
Basically I want to be able to save a search query for reuse. When I load a search query, I want it to be exactly what I saved, not something that DW has rendered (that doesn't work).

Search and Replace in Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver CS3has a nice search and replace tool allowing for search and replacement of very large text strings.
Does anyone know of a good notepad editor that can handle that large of replace text strings.
Seems like most cant handle that much code in terms of search and replace.
thanks

If you're looking for something free/cheap that handles multi-line search and replace in source code, then there's always TextWranger if you're on a Mac:
http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/
There are plenty of Windows equivalents, but none I've used extensively and could recommend. This one is free:
http://www.htmlkit.com/
...and has a button to expand the find/replace fields for multi-line content.
That being said, they're not really going to do anything DW can't if you're already using DW.

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