Re: [StrongED] Re: S & R query

[Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <56b7b28716Lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
          "Richard Torrens (lists)" <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <5424b0b756.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi

>> Is there a way to use Search and Replace to replace two or more lines
>> of text with one different line?

>> If so, can part of one of the original lines be included in the
>> replacement line?

>> The example I want to do is:

>> Original text is

>> K%=FNwritebuf(A$,1)
>> IF K%>0 THEN PROCwarn("Could not send all data: "+STR$ K%+" bytes not
>> sent")

>> The replacement should be

>> PROCsendmessage(A$,1)

>> Where the A4 and 1 need to be copied from original to replacement, as
>> they could be, for example (b$,client%)

> <"K%" * $ * $

> finds K% at the start of a line, then searches forward for two line endings

> Replace would be simply
> "PROCsendmessage(A$,1)"

Thanks. That mostly solved it.

however:

Why $ and not \n in the search?

There is sometimes whitespace at the start of the line. There seems to 
be a keyword White, but it's translation looks like something else 
entirely.
{\x20} worked, as I didn't use tabs anywhere.

There were places where the second line was different, and i did not 
want to replace those. Checking manually worked, but meant i could not 
use replace-all. There were around 50 replacements needed.

I could not find a way to select out the things in the brackets and 
replace them in the output line. Any attempt to use @ just said "line 
not found".

In the end I found the exceptions i.e. where it has things like (B4,1) 
or ("#",1) manually.

> However this is clearly a BASIC program - so I could be wrong!

> The instructions are near complete now and should certainly explain all of
> this

> http://diy.Torrens.org/RO/StrongED/man/search_adv.html



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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
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