SQL Developer 1.5.3 - Why is "Find and Replace" now a model dialog?

In SQL Developer 1.5.3 the find and replace dialog is now a modal dialog.
This prevent you from copying content from below it.
Basically only option is to type instead of copy and paste
Very frustrating!

This has been modal since 1.0. Do you mean the Edit -> Replace... ctrl R (Replace Text) dialog? As you have been able to copy and paste before, please direct me to the dialog you are referring to.
Sue

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Why does a find and replace method remove whitespace?

I have method that searches for a string in a FM document and replaces it with a variable. If for example, there was a string foobar that I wanted to replace with the variable barfoo. Then, I expect this text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, foobar consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus sed purus urna, ac tristique tortor. Nam auctor tellus non enim pulvinar a vestibulum neque tincidunt.
To be changed to this text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, barfoo consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus sed purus urna, ac tristique tortor. Nam auctor tellus non enim pulvinar a vestibulum neque tincidunt.
However, while the text does do the replace it also removes the whitespace between the variable and the text that appears right after the variable so it actually looks looks like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, barfooconsectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus sed purus urna, ac tristique tortor. Nam auctor tellus non enim pulvinar a vestibulum neque tincidunt.
Why is the find and replace method removing the whitespace and how do I prevent that from happening? The method is provided below.
function FindAndReplaceString(pDoc, findString, replaceVariable)
 if (typeof pDoc != 'undefined'&&typeof findString != 'undefined'&&typeof replaceVariable != 'undefined'&&pDoc.ObjectValid()&&findString.length>0&&replaceVariable.length>0)
 var vVarFmtStatus=checkVarFmStatus (pDoc, replaceVariable);
 if (vVarFmtStatus=='In Doc')
 var tr = new TextRange();
 var findParams = new PropVals();
 var frame = pDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow;
 var restoreTR = pDoc.TextSelection;
 tr.beg.obj = tr.end.obj = frame.FirstPgf;
 tr.beg.offset = tr.end.offset = 0;
 findParams = AllocatePropVals(1);
 findParams[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindText;
 findParams[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FT_String;
 findParams[0].propVal.sval = findString;
 tr = pDoc.Find(tr.beg, findParams);
 var vLoopCounter=0;
 while(FA_errno === Constants.FE_Success&&vLoopCounter++< 1000)
 pDoc.TextSelection = tr;
 pDoc.Clear(0);
 var newVar = pDoc.NewAnchoredFormattedVar(replaceVariable, tr.beg);
 var varLength = newVar.TextRange.end.offset - newVar.TextRange.beg.offset;
 tr.beg.offset += varLength;
 tr = pDoc.Find(tr.beg, findParams);
 if (vLoopCounter>0)
 Log (vLogFileName, 'In the document \''+pDoc.Name+'\', the string \''+findString+'\' was replaced with the variable \''+replaceVariable+'\' '+vLoopCounter+' times.\n')
 if (vLoopCounter>1000)
 recordErrors (vErrorLog, 'ERROR: In the document "'+pDoc.Name+'", the find and replace operation was stopped after executing '+vLoopCounter+' times. The term being searched for is "'+findString+'" the replacement variable is "'+ replaceVariable+'".')
 pDoc.TextSelection = restoreTR;
 pDoc.ScrollToText(restoreTR);
 } else {
 recordErrors (vErrorLog, 'ERROR: The find and replace operation failed because the variable '+replaceVariable+' does not exist in the following doc: '+pDoc.Name)
 } else {
 recordErrors (vErrorLog,'Invalid or unitialized parameter passed to function FindAndReplaceString')

Hi,
Not at the moment. Please post in http://forums.adobe.com/community/muse/ideas so other users can vote on the feature request.
Thanks,
Abhishek

Question about Find and Replace PL/SQL option in Forms Builder

Dear All
I have a small question .
I am using Find and Replace PLSQ/SQL in forms Builder ( Edit - Find and Replace PLSQL) to search any code in a form.
Let say I am searching for EMP .
Then all the places is coming where EMP is used as well as EMPloyee , EMPloyee_Desc tables also coming .
So is there any way to serach only the EMP part .

If you look closely to the right of the "Find What" field, you should see a button - "Expression". This allows you to add some logic to your search. Alternatively, depending on how you code, you could just look for spaces. For example, if you are looking for EMP and not EMPLOYEE, search for EMP with a blank space before and after it (assuming you code this way) or use something like this \bEMP\b This would work for me because I code the same way I write sentences - each work is separated by spaces.
<blockquote> EMPLOYEE := EMP || ' - ID';</blockquote>
In this example, seaching for EMP with a blank space after would find what I wanted. However, if you only search for a trailing blank, you may end up also finding words like tEMP. This is where have a blank space before each word is helpful.
Other, more valuable expressions could be written to accomplish your task. Refer to the Forms Builder Online help for more information about using Expressions in the Find and Replace search window.

Find and Replace text string in HTML

Opps... I hope this forum is not just for Outlook. My Html files reside on my hard-drive. I am looking for VBA code to open specified file names ####File.html and then find and replace text strings within the html for example "####Name" replaced
with "YYYYY"
I drive the "####File.html" names and the find and replace text strings from an Excel sheet. I am an artist and this Sub would give me time to paint instead of find and replace text. Thank you!
[email protected]

Hello Phil,
The current forum is for developers and Outlook related programming questions. That's why I'd suggest hiring anybody for developing the code for you. You may find freelancers, for example. Try googling for any freelance-related web sites and asking such
questions there.
If you decide to develop an Outlook macro on your own, the
Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010 article is a good place to start from.

Find and Replace text in files

Is there a function that will find and replace a word in a few text files at once. E.G replace the word database1 with database2 without going into each script individually and doing and search and replace.

Andrew, you are being so cruel, hardnuts indeed ;)
I won't mention any names, but at least it's not as cruel as some people saying “You may read DBMS_STATS package specification, at least, to get details, if you're too lazy to read manuals.”
Personally I prefer to use a development tool (TOAD, Pl/Sql Developer) instead of a Text type editor.

Folder action to find and replace text and change line feeds

I want to use a folder action to find and replace text and change Mac carriage returns to DOS line feeds inside text files.
The text to be replaced is: "/Users/wim/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music" (without the quotes)
This text has to be removed (i.e. replaced by an empty string)
The text occurs many times within each file.
The files are playlists exported from iTunes in the M3U format (which are text files). They contain Mac carriage returns. These need to be changed to DOS line feeds.
I have found the following two perl commands to achieve this:
To find and replace text: perl -pi -w -e 's/THIS/THAT/g;' *.txt
To change carriage returns to line feeds: perl -i -pe 's/\015/\015\012/g' mac-file
I know that it's possible to make a folder action with Automator that executes a shell script.
What I want to do is drop the exported playlists in M3U format in a folder so that the folder action will remove the right text and change the carriage returns.
My questions are:
Is it possible to make a folder action that executes command line commands instead of shell scripts?
What is the correct syntax for the two commands when used in a folder action shell script? Especially, how do I escape the slashes (/) in the string to be removed?
Thanks for your help

Ok, I've include an applescript to run a shell command. The applesript command quoted form makes a string that will end up as a single string on the bash command line. Depending on what you want to do, you may need multiple string on the bash command lines. I've included some information on folder actions.
It is easier to diagnose problems with debug information. I suggest adding log statements to your script to see what is going on. Here is an example.
    Author: rccharles
    For testing, run in the Script Editor.
      1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log statement
      2) Click on Run
    For running shell commands see:
    http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
on run
    -- Write a message into the event log.
    log " --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
    -- debug lines
    set desktopPath to (path to desktop) as string
    log "desktopPath = " & desktopPath
    set unixDesktopPath to POSIX path of desktopPath
    log "unixDesktopPath = " & unixDesktopPath
    set quotedUnixDesktopPath to quoted form of unixDesktopPath
    log "quoted form is " & quotedUnixDesktopPath
    try
        set fromUnix to do shell script "ls -l " & quotedUnixDesktopPath
        display dialog "ls -l of " & quotedUnixDesktopPath & return & fromUnix
    on error errMsg
        log "ls -l error..." & errMsg
    end try
end run
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2) Place script in
/Library/Scripts/Folder Actions Scripts
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pick your script.
Create a new folder on the desktop & try.
You can put multiple folder actions on a folder. There are other ways of doing this.
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How to make the text into an AppleScript program.
Start the AppleScript Editor
/Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app
In Snow Leopard it's at: /Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor
Copy the script text to the Applescript editor.
Note: The ¬ is typed as option+return. ption+return is the Applescript line continuation characters.
You may need to retype these characters.
Save the text to a file as an script and do not check any of the boxes below.

Find and Replace in RH HTML

After upgrading to RH8, all instances of "em dash" symbols in projects are now appearing incorrectly. When we insert the "em dash" symbol, we always eliminate any spaces before and after the symbol. All projects that have been upgraded to use RH8 now add a space after the symbol, which is incorrect.
I have also installed the RH updates and opened a project that had not been upgraded before the update installs...same problem.
Due to the size of the projects, I have tried using the Find and Replace feature within the HTML view; unfortunately, this did not work.
Has this issue been addressed with Adobe? I ran into a similar issue with the upgrade to RH7, where the HTML coding for em dashes would come through in the design view and final .chm output file. Does anyone know of a Find and Replace feature within RH that will allow me to remove every instance where a space appears after the em dash symbol? I have found the FAR tool but would like to avoid it if possible, as I have read it can corrupt RH files.

There was one other post recently about this but otherwise this problem had gone quiet so I don't know why you are seeing it in a project that was not opened before applying the patches.
So turning to FAR, it is not the program that corrupts files. It is what the user does with it. As we usually say, it can fix a project in minutes and wreck it in seconds. That is because the user has not thought about what the search might find. For example, you might search for "class" thinking about your topic content but of course FAR works a code level so it will remove all your style classes as well. That is where the corruption comes in, not the software itself. It's rather like blaming the car for the crash.
If you back up first, there is nothing to lose.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

VBA Word Find and Replace characters but excluding certain characters

I am trying to write VBA code in Word that I will eventually run from a VBA Excel module. The aim of the project is to find specific strings in the open Word document that have length of either one or two characters and are of a certain format, and replace
them with other strings in the same format. This is to do with transposing (i.e. changing the musical key) of chord symbols in a songsheet in Word. The Find and Replace strings are contained in ranges in an Excel workbook, which is why I want to eventually
run the code from Excel. I'm much more experienced in writing VBA code in Excel than in Word, and I'm fairly confident with transferring the 'Word VBA' code into an Excel module.
At the moment I'm trying out code entirely in Word, and I've come across a stumbling block. For example, I want it to Find "A" and replace with "B",
BUT only if the "A" is NOT followed by "#" (sharp) or "b" (flat).
Here is the code I've got in Word VBA, which I obtained by editing code produced by the recorder:
Sub F_R()
'Find text must have specific font
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.Bold = True
.Underline = wdUnderlineWords
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
End With
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.Bold = True
.Underline = wdUnderlineWords
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
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With Selection.Find
.Text = "A" 'hard-coded here for testing, but this will
'eventually be referenced to a cell in Excel
.Replacement.Text = "B" 'hard-coded here for testing, but this will
'eventually be referenced to a cell in Excel
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = True
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
For the Find & Replace section I want to do something like:
With Selection.Find
.Text = "A"
.Text <> "A#"
.Text <> "Ab"
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End With
- but this produces a syntax error, presumably because you can have only one .Text line (or it won't accept <>?)
I tried adopting the way of excluding chars when using the Like operator, and while it compiles, it will not replace
any "A":
With Selection.Find
.Text = "A[!b#]"
.Replacement.Text = "B"
End With
I suspect that I'm going to have to change tack completely in the way I'm doing this. Do you have any suggestions, please?
The chord names/symbols are preceded/succeeded by either spaces or paragraph returns and can look like these, for example (all Font Bold and Underlined words only):
C7
Dm7
Eb-5
Bb+11
F#m7
i.e. [ABCDEFG][b # | optional][m |optional][- + | superscript, optional][2 3
5 6 7 9 11 13 | superscript, optional]
The crux of my problem is that the note A should be treated as entirely distinct from Ab or A# (and similar for other flattened/sharpened notes).
Sorry for long post.

Hi Ian,
It is not easy to find Microsoft forums. However this forum is for the Visual Studio Net version.
Try this forum for VBA.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=isvvba
Success
Cor

How do I create a multiple find and replace for Excel in AppleScript?

I have a large dataset in Excel that I have to do a multiple find/replace in (changing USPS state abbreviations to their full names). In searching the Microsoft boards--I was directed to use Applescript, and even the documented help with Excel was recommeding this. Unfortunately, there wasn't much help potinting me in the specific direction I needed. Any ideas on how I should write this script?
Thanks!

I'm confused as to why Applescript (or any script would be helpful).
You'd have to type the abbreviation and the full name into the script, the same as just using Find and Replace All. You wouldn't gain anything by using a script. Is there more to this task than you've let on?
MacTech has an article on converting from VBA to Applescript, but I'm not sure if it would have any ideas on your specific problem: http://www.mactech.com/vba-transition-guide/index-toc.html

Batch-find-and-replace.jsx

Hi there, I wrote a batch-processing script for find change queries and thought I share it with you. You can get it over here
You can process GREP, TEXT, GLYPH and OBJECT searches.
Purpouse
While creating books in InDesign with several documents we always come across some find change queries that need to be used again, and again, and again. To make this process easier you can just grab their names and put them into a list. The script will than try to process all your queries in one click.
prerequisites
make sure you have a toml file.
make sure the toml file is next to the script.
make sure the toml file has the right formatting (see below in section TOML)
if you want the script to autoexecute (without toml file selection), make sure the .toml file has the right name: "batch-find-and-replace.toml"
make sure your fcqueries work right
Usage
Place the script and the toml file into your Scripts Panel Folder
define some find and change queries and save them via the InDesign dialogue.
get the xml file names and add them to the "batch-find-and-replace.toml" file in the right spot. text search goes into text.files = [], grep search goes into grep.files = [] and so on. Make shure to remove the .xml from the filename. You can find these files on:
Mac OS Users[username]\Library\Preferences\Adobe InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
Windows XP Documents and Settings[username]\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
the .toml file should be located next to the script file and have the appropriate name (batch-find-and-replace.toml). If so the script wont ask for the toml file and process the data right away. If not the script will ask you to select the .toml file.
Thats it. Watch the magick happen.
TOML
Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language is a simple markup language that makes settings human readable. It is still in development and may change a lot. But still. It is a pretty easy language and can be learned by anyone.
The basic toml filer looks like this:
# these are the basic settings
# the MUST be there
do_text = true
do_grep = true
do_glyph = true
do_object = false
# now the file names
# they have to be in one line
# the toml specs say you can break lines in arrays
# but the toml.js does not allow that at the moment
[text]
files = ["my_first_text_find_and_change","another one"]
[grep]
files = ["somegrepsearch", "find tabs", "something else"]
[glyph]
files = []
[objects]
files = []
MUST HAVE Settings
With the do_text, do_object, do_grep and do_glyph you can define if the script should do the corresponding find and replace. Set them to true or false.
CAN HAVE Settings
In the [text],[grep],[glyph] and [objects] areas you can define the filenames that should be processed. Make sure the filenames are written right. If there is a file mentioned that does not exist the script will throw an error. It will try to process all the .xml files it can find.
!IMPORTANT! you MUST remove the .xml from the filename in the list as shown above.
The Script is here --> https://raw.github.com/...find-and-replace.jsx
The basic .toml file here --> https://raw.github.com/...ind-and-replace.toml
The Readme here --> https://github.com/...lob/master/README.md
And the whole package here --> https://github.com/...e/archive/master.zip

Great script, it worked perfectly with grep, text, glyph, not only worked with OBJECTS, because I do the same operation and does not work. Can you give me a hand? Thank you.
In arquivo.toml is thus:
# These are the basic settings
# The MUST be there
do_text = true
do_grep = false
do_glyph = false
do_object = true
do_all_docs = false
# Now the file names
# They have to be in one line
# TomL the specs say you can break lines in arrays
# But does not allow the toml.js que momento
[text]
files = ["_OVER_BLACK_TXT", "_OVER_CORPROF_TXT"]
[grep]
files = []
[glyph]
files = []
[object]
files = ["_OVER_BLACK_FILL", "_OVER_BLACK_STRK"]
This is the image of the Scripts Panel folder:

How to find and replace the text present in the url

I have a column of type NCLOB with some text having url's in between as shown below:
========================================================================
This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.
<A PL/SQL </A>
Thsi text is also for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.
<A http://forums.oracle.com> </A>
This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.
========================================================================
Requirement:
========
Requirement is to implement the find and replace functionality.
I just need to check whether the search text is present in the url or not?
Suppose if search for orcale.com, since its part of the url so the search should be successful otherwise search should be unsuccessful.
Here I can give you the hint like, always the url lies between the anchor tags *(<A </A>).*
Tahnks in Advance.

I had I think a similiar question the other day thay I Frank and Michaels answered for me.
not sure if I totally have what you want but.
WITH t
 AS (SELECT '<A PL/SQL This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.
 txt
 FROM DUAL)
SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR (REGEXP_REPLACE (txt, '(.*<A)|(</A>.*)'), 'oracle.com')
FROM tthe first part the regexp replace part gets the text between a start and end point you mentioned that would be <A and </A>
the regexp substr just looks for the phrase oracle.com in the text between those two points.
Edited by: pollywog on Oct 6, 2010 8:26 AM

Find and replaced disabled in Reports 10g

Hi,
I've noticed that in Reports 10g, the 'Find and Replace' and 'Find and Replace in PL/SQL' options tool under the Edit menu cannot be accessed until you open a program unit. Is this a bug ?
In previous versions of the reports builder, I didn't have to open a program unit to bring up this tool.
My version is Report Builder 10.1.2.0.2.
Thanks.

Any answer ??

Numbers find and replace

Sorry, my only "question" about this is WHY Apple would put such poor software on the market. Functions such as "find and replace" in Numbers are so incomplete and poorly designed they make the entire package useless. F&R only does text, cannot F&R in selected columns and.....will start to search an entire spreadsheet using the last "find" entry and/or starts to search before all of the "find" has been typed. When working with a large spreadsheet, Numbers will start its own find search, not allowing the "replace" entry to even be entered until it searches the entire spreadsheet (sometimes that requires force quitting Numbers to make it stop the useless search.)
I have been a Mac user since the very first 64K model. For Apple to release Numbers and then discuss how "elegant" it is an embarrasment to all Apple fans.
Mac in Smyrna

Jerrold:
Thank you for your response.
The problem is, I HAVE sent comments to Apple regarding Numbers before. As we all know, Apple has made many many decisions (automatic save, etc., etc.) without any attempt at asking their users if that change would be useful or a problem.
My hope is the dedicted Apple community might be able to get some attention for a long standing problem. Apple has issued multiple updates for numbers that do nothing to correct the problems real users have communicated to them.
I have been the "promoter" of Apple and Apple products in two large MS Windows dominated companies over the last 25 plus years. By putting products such as Numbers on the market to "business" users and then letting them discover things like Number's find and replace capabilities does a disservice to the entire family of Apple products in the business marketplace.
If the problem is with copyright problems with MS Excell, tell us. Don't keep telling us about elegant non functional software!
Mac in Smyrna

In the new Numbers, can I find and replace within formulas like I used to in Numbers'09?

I use Numbers with quite long formulas with reference to other tables. With Numbers'09, it was extremely useful to copy formulas and then use "find and replace" to change the terms within.
Did they remove this option? I don't seem to be able to do that with the new Version.
If it's still there, where do I find it?
If it's not there.... why would they remove it.
Thanks

Basically, I use it for payroll, taxes, and so on... I have one sheet per employee (which compiles their weekly payroll). I have then different sheets which makes the quarterly taxes calculation (state and federal taxes - 941, 940, W2, disability, UI, paystubs, tracks payments and deadlines, etc... ). It took me awhile to write all of the formulas, but now it does everything for me.
When I add an employee. I have to add a sheet, but also add a line in the calculation sheets. Because all the employee sheets are the same format, all I need to do (or used to now) was to copy the line above, and just change the reference name of the employee sheet within the formula (because there are several terms that are looked up, the reference name comes several time in the formula)... changing it manually is really annoying. What was taking me a minute or so, before, now takes me about 20 minutes. (between the different sheets, there are about between 75 to 100 changes in formulas per new employee - so the "find and replace" in formula only, was extremely useful).

Dreamweaver CC generates one of 3 error messages when using find and replace on Win 8.1 64 bit.

Dreamweaver CC generates one of 3 error messages when using find and replace is used more than twice in succession. "While executing onLoad in bc_afterSave.htm, the following JavaScript error(s) occurred: At line 188 of file C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe|Adobe DreamweaverCC|Configuration|Shared|BC\JS\bc_sites.js": out of memory"
or
While executing runCommand in File_Save.htm, a JavaScript erroroccurred.
or
While exciting getDynamicContent inAdressURL.htm, a Javascript erroroccirred.
Any thoughts - I end up closing DWCC and reopening. Will work for two additional Find and Replace before the error messaged\s popup again.

bkaufman43 wrote:
Thanks Jon. I tried all of those solutions before posting. Same problem. It seems that the problem is tied to DWCC. Do not have the problem when using DW6 on Win8.1. When running DWCC on a Win7 pc, we get the same error message. When running DW6 on Win 7, f&c works fine. It seems to be a bug in DWCC. DWCC works flawlessly on our Macs.
The same steps apply to DWCC, you just need to choose the CC folders rather than the DWCS4-6 versions that the page talks about. The layout of CC's folders hasn't changed from the older versions which is why, I think, Adobe hasn't updated the troubleshooting page as of yet.
As Nancy mentions, a 38,500 page site is sort of ridiculously large for a static website, that could be part of the problem, but your response quoted above leads me to think you may have tried the troubleshooting steps in the wrong version of the program. Could you confirm that?

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