Text manipulation

I have a data set that is huge, displaying a list of two numbers, separated by a comma, as in "0.15,1.21". Each number represents an x- and y-coordinate that I want to plot in Numbers. Is there a way I can use Automator to copy each number (separated by commas) and create their own, separate text file so I can just copy and paste each one's contents into two different columns in Numbers. Or... is there a simple way to do this in Numbers or Excel? I don't have time to manually go in and separate several hundred thousand data points!
Thanks,
Eric

Import would be the simplest - or you could replace the "," with a "^t" in word - or you could use an excel formula along the lines of this:
your data in A1
0.15,1.22
formula for the first value in B1
=left(A1,4)
formula for the second value in B2
=right(A1,4)
then fill down for the remainder of the values and the formula will automatically adjust.
likely something similar in pages though I haven't used pages much and I write formulas in excel that would make your head spin.
Above assumes that all the values are 4 digits (including .) separated by , 4 digits
Another option would be to use Alt select in Word to pull out the first half of the data - click next to the top left most value - hold the Alt key - and click and drag the mouse down to the left of the , in the last row - copy switch to Numbers or Excel - paste. repeat for the other data.
Or use a more complex formula in Excel such as = left(A1,len(A1)-find(","A1)) to pull out the first value - and =right(a1,len(a1)-find(",",A1))
or in Excel you can use the import wizard to either specify the separator or use a fixed width position.
or I would imagine there are more complex methods using AppleScript, or the terminal command line, etc.

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Our company is getting into variable data printing. There are a few ways to get variable data into photos. I've played with a program called Direct Smile. Its text manipulation tools are rather good. It lays a grid over the text and you can select each grid intersection and pull and push to get the text into the shape you want.
There are other programs that work through InDesign and Photoshop, using scripts to insert the variable data into the Photoshop text layer.
When I tried to warp the text in Photoshop I found that beyond a certain point, you have to flatten the text, at which point, it's no longer a text layer that can accept variable data from a database.
Is there anything like the grid tool in Direct Smile in Photoshop?

I’m unfamiliar with Direct Smile.
But for text-manipulation in Photoshop You might want to consider converting the Text to a Smart Object which can then be warped or treated with the Distort-Filter Displace, all the while maintaining the text-layer within the SO and thusly its editability.
And if I remember correctly one can even make Liquify applicable as a Smart Filter, but one would have to save the Mesh separately … possibly too problematic a solution.
Or You could go via Illustrator which offers Envelope Distort (which provides a grid-based »plasticity«) and then embed the result thereof as a SO in the Photoshop-file. Unfortunately Illustrator doesn’t Script as comfortably as Photoshop in my limited experience and Envelope Distort my be unscriptable altogether.
But if I understand correctly You will want to automate all that stuff, so maybe You should check out the respective Scripting-Fora.

Need help to start with some file and text manipulation

Hello script mavens,
I need help with starting a script that does the following:
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-creates a new folder inside the base folder and calls it imagesX where X increases by one every time the script is run
-moves all the files into the images folder
-within the base folder it creates a new text file and calls it imagesX.js
-writes a "//-" into imagesX.js
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-in indexX.html it replaces a string "replaceThis" with "imagesX.js"
The task is more complex but this would help me tremendously do the rest.
If I am asking for too much on this forum please let me know

This should get you started.
The description of how you want to write the data isn't clear, but the rest should work (untested):
property imageNum : 0 -- last used ImageNumber
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-- get the folder:
set baseFolder to (choose folder)
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tell application "Finder"
set fileList to every file of folder baseFolder as alias list
end tell
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tell application "Finder"
set imageNum to imageNum + 1
set newImageFolder to make new folder at baseFolder with properties {name:"images" & imageNum}
-- moves all the files into the images folder
move every file of folder baseFolder to newImageFolder
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set textFile to (open for access file (baseFolder as text) & "images" & imageNum & ".js" with write permission)
--writes a "//-" into imagesX.js
write "//-" to textFile
-- then writes the list of filenames into the imagesX.js twice, separated by an empty line, and adds a semicolon to the end of each filename and saves imagesX.js
-- need more info here
-- a blank line between each instance of the file name? or all file names, blank line, all file names again?
-- an example, please
close access textFile
--from a folder a level above the base folder it copies a file called index.html into the base folder
--and renames in indexX.html
--in indexX.html it replaces a string "replaceThis" with "imagesX.js"
-- the easiest way of doing this is to read the file and write a new copy with the changes - that's easier than changing it in situ:
set indexHTML to (read file "index.html" of folder (container of baseFolder))
set {oldTIDs, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, "replaceThis"}
set indexHTML to text items of indexHTML
set my text item delimiters to "imagesX.js"
set indexHTML to indexHTML as text
set my text item delimiters to oldTIDs
set indexFile to (open for access file ("index" & imageNum & ".html") with write permission)
write indexHTML to indexFile
close access indexFile
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New to After Effects - need help with text manipulation!

Hi all, I'm new to AE and this forum and I'm looking for some advice. I've been asked by the boss at work to create a short video clip, around 10-15 seconds, where text is displayed on the screen (3 words), after the few seconds, I want a 'forging' noise to happen and the final word in the text to be changed to another word and have a metallic effect applied, similar to the effect in this tutorial:
Create Hot Metallic Text in After Effects - After Effects - macProVideo.com Hub
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John

johnster1991 wrote:
Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it. So will it be difficult to have one word of text come onto the screen and overlay on top of the existing text, as if it's crashing over it? Any ideas on the steps I would use to do this? Thanks
As you begin your career of using AE, you will change your vocabulary. Overlay will be replaced with spatial references like in front or behind.
Designing text with surface styles like chrome or metal is not difficult. You can even import them from Photoshop if you have some PS chops or friends who can do it quickly.
TEXT ONE can be easily replaced with TEXT TWO in any of dozens of different ways but to drop TWO in front of ONE is easy, you're just setting position keyframes. The finesse of animation, though, lies in the illusion of motion, exaggeration, overshooting and recoil. Your TWO could fall and squish and rebound and bounce or it could raise a dust cloud as it hits or it could make the camera wiggle. These are the things that separate simple key framing from animation and motion graphics.

Please help with Text Manipulation

I am trying to display text in a fixed frame in Reports 9i.
Example:
Assuming Fixed Display Text Area in Report = 5 lines x 100 characters
Text field in database has capacity of 4000 characters(which is free form text entered by user and can contain tabs/carriage return etc)
How do I read from the database text field to display only the text that would fit in the fixed frame on the report. And I need to display the remaining text in the subsequent pages of the report.
Ideally 5 lines of text would mean 500 characters, but this can vary based on existence of tab spaces or carriage returns.

Hi,
You'll want to post here instead:
Reports
-Ron

Header text manipulation (VA22)

Hi,
Is there any way we can manipulate header texts in sales documents in runtime, i.e can I fill the header texts through userexits while users use va21 or va22 ?
Complete scenario:
We have not configured text determination because the there are no fixed rules mentioned by our client.
Hence the users are keying in text based on some other characteristics. Once the quotation is final then they need to change the customer number in VA22 which is wiping off the texts. Now I need to fill that text box with the texts keyed in while creating the quotation. I can read the texts using the function module "READ_TEXT" but the question is how can I fill the textarea so that the user can modify the text before saving.

Hi Neo!
I searched a little in SAPMV45A, in SMOD and SE18 - but I didn't found a usefull exit in sales order transaction. Of course something can be done in 'at save', but I don't see an exit early enough (like 'move field to vbak') which has a connection to the text editor.
Header texts are displayed in a different report (SAPLV70T) and it's using objects -> no change of global data in SAPMV45A possible. There is an exit EXIT_SAPLV45T_001 in enhancement V45T0001 - try it, I don't know if it's only for checks (PAI, no changes).
If the customer needs this functionality at all costs: make a separate transaction where you input quotation number, new customer number; ENTER: read text, change quotation, save text; call transaction to changed quotation stopping at error (and just fill entry screen).
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Christian

Powershell Text Manipulation Against Robocopy

Hello,
I am using robocopy and would like to do a through analysis of the log file rather than on the robocopy exit codes... not sure if anyone has any better ideas.
robocopy c:\testpath\test\downloads c:\local\downloads /LOG:c:\local\report.txt /MT:16
ok, so that's my copy.
$results = (Get-Content C:\local\report.txt)[-4 .. -4]
OK, so now i have the line on the text file i want to compare which is the bytes Total,Copied,Skipped,Mismarch, Failed, Extras
So they don't all always get populated, in this example total and copied are populated and return in my variable as below.
Bytes : 871.09 m 871.09 m 0 0 0 0
Now what i want to do is to turn each of the figures on this line to a separate variable so i can then do some calculations before proceeding.
I did a -split however it's a bit all over the place and not sure how to sort this.
$results -split " "
Bytes :
871.09 m
871.09 m
0
0
0
0
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(gc c:\local\narrowed.txt) | ? {$_.trim() -ne "" }
Bytes :
871.09 m
871.09 m
0
0
0
0
Then ran this
$single | select -skip 1
871.09 m
871.09 m
0
0
0
0
Great now i want each of those lines as a variable.
Anyone have any ideas how i can pull each number out of this line so i can pass them as different variables?
Many Thanks in advance :)

Maybe this will help:
$result = (cat d:\report.txt | ? { $_ -like '*Bytes :*' }) # change for your language
$values = @()
$result | Select-String -Pattern "\d{1,}([.]\d{1,})?" -AllMatches | % { $values+=$_.Matches.Value }
$Total = $values[0]
$Copied = $values[1]
$Skipped = $values[2]
$Mismach = $values[3]
$Failed = $values[4]
$Extras = $values[5]
Write-Host ("Total: $Total, Copied: $Copied, Skipped: $Skipped, Mismach: $Mismach, Failed: $Failed, Extras: $Extras ")

Text manipulation with tr or sed or ... help needed ...

Dear All,
I need to get the following ...:
HELP\nME ==> remove \n
HELP \nME ==> do nothing
HELP\n ME ==> do nothing
HELP \n ME ==> do nothing
I know that I can easily remove all '\n' with "tr -d '\n' <infile.txt >outfile.txt", but this is a little different ;-)
Best, and thanks in advance, Peter

If this what you need:
[kido@kido ~]$ cat help.txt
HELP\nME
HELP \nME
HELP\n ME
HELP \n ME
[kido@kido ~]$ sed 's/HELP\\nME/HELP ME/g' help.txt
HELP ME
HELP \nME
HELP\n ME
HELP \n ME
OK, seems like the portal has serious text formatting issues.
Let me put the command this way:
$ sed 's/HELP_backslash_backslash_n_ME/HELP ME/g' help,txt
Replace "backslash" word with the corresponding sign; Please not that between HELP, backslash and backslash there are no free spaces; I used "_" just to mark the boundaries..
Regards,
kido
Edited by: kido on Jul 30, 2009 10:05 AM

JTree text manipulation

I am running the standard example from Java with only two lines changed:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/TreeIconDemo2Project/src/components/TreeIconDemo2.java">JtreeDemo2.java
{code}
public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(
JTree tree,
Object value,
boolean sel,
boolean expanded,
boolean leaf,
int row,
boolean hasFocus) {
super.getTreeCellRendererComponent(
tree, value, sel,
expanded, leaf, row,
hasFocus);
if (leaf) {
setTextNonSelectionColor(new Color(255, 0, 0)); //-->change text color to red if leaf
setIcon(tutorialIcon);
setToolTipText("This book is in the Tutorial series.");
} else {
setTextNonSelectionColor(new Color(0, 255, 0)); //-->otherwise change color to green
setToolTipText(null); //no tool tip
return this;
{code}
When I run the program the red and green color of a node change depending on what I select. Any ideas?

So oddly enough I changed my code to:
public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(
                            JTree tree,
                            Object value,
                            boolean sel,
                            boolean expanded,
                            boolean leaf,
                            int row,
                            boolean hasFocus) {
            super.getTreeCellRendererComponent(
                            tree, value, sel,
                            expanded, leaf, row,
                            hasFocus);
            if (leaf) {
                setIcon(tutorialIcon);
                setToolTipText("This book is in the Tutorial series.");
                setForeground(Color.red);
            } else {
                setToolTipText(null); //no tool tip
                setForeground(Color.green);
            }and it worked. I still don't know why it didn't work the previous way. Anyhow if anyone else has a similar problem the above change worked for me.
Edited by: shays on Jun 29, 2009 3:13 PM

No Text Manipulation buttons (ribbon)?

This is the first time I've actually tried to edit content in a .pdf using Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
Ok so you can use the "Edit Document Text" tool under the Content context menu. But I see no buttons at the top of Acrobat...stuff you normally see in word processor apps. You know your typical Bold, font change dropdown, etc.
So I see you can change the text by right clicking and going to properties of the highlighted text. There you can do all that.
Is this the only way? I pray not.
Unless I'm missing it, I see no bar at the top that I can enable that gives me formatting buttons in Acrobat.

The usual complaint was, in the good old days, that PDFs couldn't be edited at all. And now we've come so far ...
Given the enormous number of document types that can be saved as PDF, Adobe might want to build in the complete functionality of Word (grammar checking, Annoying Clippy, etc.), InDesign (for serious page layout work), Illustrator (after all, the file might contain vector images), Photoshop (the same for bitmaps), Maya/3DS or a similar 3D editor (you might have an embedded 3D image), Premiere (a PDF can contain movie clips) ... Wait, you can also embed Flash. Add a Flash editor, please. Oh, and sound. Uh. Sound Booth? Anything more?
They can also decide that it's up to the user to decide if it's worth his time to re-do stuff one character at a time or simply re-create the entire PDF from the original file. So far, this seems to be winning.

Text Manipulation in Pages

Is there any way you can alter text in Pages, similar to the WordArt function in MS Word? For example, arched or wavy text? Thanks!!

Look here:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=71&mforum=iworktipsn trick
and
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23541/art-text
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Peter

Text manipulation within 1 string

Hi I have a database with thousands of horse race result
records with the following layout
horsename odds (country)
i.e Wollow 9-0 (USA)
I want to split it into 3 seperate fields, and I need a
coldfusion script to
1. strip first the country (anything in brackets at the end
of the string - sometimes country is not present so check for
brackets will b required)
2. script that strips the "odds" and puts in a seperate field
(I guess this will be done by checking for anything after first
space working from back from the end of the country removed string)
- sometimes there are no odds so check for last character of string
as numerical
many thanks

maxspeed, this will take a lot of string manipulation to
counter all the variables you may run into.
I had an issue like this with a person's name and having to
split into first, middle int., last and suffix. The way to approach
this is to look at the data as a string with SPACE delimeters but
you need to replace some of the spaces with a real delimeter in
order to separate the fields.
What you first need to do, is evaluate all the possibilities
of data formats--single name horse, odds, country--double name
horse, odds, country---double name horse, country, etc.
You MUST find a constant, or at least an easily matched list
of variables (for me it was suffix--jr., sr., II, III, IV, etc.)
and work from there.
If the country will always be in () or [ ] , you can search
for that, extract it and set the #country# value and replace it
with nothing. This shortens the string with the country variable
now defined and you can work on the odds.
The odds should (hopefully) have some sort of delimiter (9-0,
5to1, 7 to 2) so you can search for the - or the 'to' and extract.
This only leaves the horse name.
I could post my code but it would take you longer to figure
out what I did and how to apply it to your project (with a LOT of
changes), but I recommend researching all the replace, find and
listcontains tags and start testing.
With no set data format, you will need to build a huge
<cfif> function to separate all the values taking into
account all the data variables.
Good luck but with some planning you will put it
together.

Text Manipulation in Flash CS4

I have many text elements in my flash file - how do I modify the text to make it all caps? Is there an easy way where I can select all of them in one go and make them all caps?

Thanks for helping out. I looked up the text element in JSFL and it's subclasses and their properties. I can't find the property related to uppercase/capitalization. Could you let me know if you're aware of anything I'm missing? Sorry if I'm bothering you but to be honest I'm too lazy to change every text box.
38. Text
Subclass of Element; a text field on the Stage
Methods
Name
Args
Description
getTextAttr
attrName [, startIndex] [, endIndex]
Returns the specified text attribute
getTextString
startIndex, endIndex
Returns the text string contained in the specified range
setTextAttr
attrName, attrValue [, startIndex] [, endIndex]
Sets the specified text attribute
setTextString
text [, startIndex] [, endIndex]
Sets the text string within the text object
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Name
Description
accName
Name of an object, used by screen reader
autoExpand
If true, the bounding width expands to display all text
border
If true, displays a border around dynamic or input text
description
Description of the object, used by screen reader
embeddedCharacters
Embeds all specified characters
embedRanges
Specifies ranges of characters to embed
length
The number of characters in a text object
lineType
The type of text line
maxCharacters
Specifies the maximum characters
orientation
Specifies the orientation of the text
renderAsHTML
If true, text renders as HTML
scrollable
If true, text can be scrolled
selectable
If true, text can be selected
selectionEnd
Offset of the end of a text subselection
selectionStart
Offset of the beginning of a text subselection
shortcut
An object's shortcut key
silent
If true, object is not read by screen reader
tabIndex
tabIndex value of an object
textRuns
An array of TextRun objects
textType
The type of text field
useDeviceFonts
If true, renders text using device font
variableName
Stores the contents of text field in a variable name
39. TextAttrs
Subclass of TextRun; contains properties applicable to a subselection
Properties
Name
Description
aliasText
If true, text renders aliased
alignment
Paragraph justification
autoKern
If true, pair kerning is used
bold
If true, text is displayed as bold
characterPosition
The vertical position of text
characterSpacing
Integer representing the space between characters
face
The name of the font
fillColor
A hexadecimal color string
indent
Paragraph indentation
italic
If true, text is displayed in italics
leftMargin
A paragraph's left margin
lineSpacing
A paragraph's line spacing
rightMargin
A paragraph's right margin
rotation
If true, characters are rotated 90 degrees
size
The size of the font
target
The string for the target
url
A string representing an URL
40. TextRun
Subclass of Text; a string of characters
Properties
Name
Description
characters
The text contained in a TextRun object
textAttrs
TextAttrs object containing the attributes of a run of text

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Hi Folks,
I want to write a MACRO in DP based on the first character of the planner key. Need to calculate if my planner key is 'H*'. The planner key is three characters as given below.
HGK
H1R
HWK
T1R
T2E
T3W
I need to do a calculation for all the materials whose planner key starts with 'H'.
The logic of the conditon will be like
If (SNP Planner Key = 'H*' ) then
Endif
Is there any way to manipulate text in the macro something like TRIM or extract or is there any other way to achieve this?
Thanks & Regards,
Vasudevan

Hi Vasudevan ,
Check if the VALUE_CONTAINED() function can be used to satisfy your requirement. I have not used it before , but it looks like your requirement could be satisfied using this function.
I checked in my test system using wildcard * , but for some reason the wildcard option is not working. Try value_contained in conjunction with MATLOC_C function and check if it works.
Thanks
Aparna

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I do not have any experience with Graphics... could any one point me in the direction of a good basic tutorial...
all I want my code to be able to do is take a String rotate it 90 degrees and save as a gif, or jpeg...
this seems like it would be a very easy task however I do not know where to start... any suggestions are appreciated...
thanks

This may be a little late, but this PDF document describe what you are looking for:
ftp://ftp.java.sun.com/docs/j2se/1.4/j2d-book.pdf
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