Search and Replace : Java Glossary

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Search and Replace Magic Replacement Strings
%%srfound%%	Returns the current search string.
%%srfound %% - Special	A special form of the %%srfound%% operator can be used to strip specified characters from the search hit. The form is: %%srfoundcharacters to remove specified here%%, where characters to remove specified here is one or more characters which, if present in the search hit, will be removed from the replace. Example: Upon a replace operation, %%srfoundiex %% removes the letters i, e, x, and <spaces> from the search hit.
%%srpath%%	Returns the path (without filename) of the current file.
%%srfile%%	Returns the file name (without path). This can be used to customise generic boilerplate with the file name.
%%srfiledate%%	Returns the current date stamp of the file. This is the date prior to a replace made by Search and Replace.
%%srfiletime%%	Returns the current time stamp of the file. This is the time prior to a replace made by Search and Replace.
%%srfilesize%%	Returns the file size prior to the replace made by Search and Replace.
%%srdate%%	Returns the current date of the machine.
%%srtime%%	Returns the current time of the machine.
%%srprepend%% %%srappend%%	Used in Search and Replace scripts — The search string will be prepended or appended to the file as a literal string.
%%envvar=fruit%%	returns the contents of the SET fruit=strawberry environment variable. This can be used to customise boilerplate.

Search and Replace Magic Replacement Strings

%%srfound%%

Returns the current search string.

%%srfound %% - Special

A special form of the %%srfound%% operator can be used to strip specified characters from the search hit. The form is: %%srfoundcharacters to remove specified here%%, where characters to remove specified here is one or more characters which, if present in the search hit, will be removed from the replace. Example: Upon a replace operation, %%srfoundiex %% removes the letters i, e, x, and <spaces> from the search hit.

%%srpath%%

Returns the path (without filename) of the current file.

%%srfile%%

Returns the file name (without path). This can be used to customise generic boilerplate with the file name.

%%srfiledate%%

Returns the current date stamp of the file. This is the date prior to a replace made by Search and Replace.

%%srfiletime%%

Returns the current time stamp of the file. This is the time prior to a replace made by Search and Replace.

%%srfilesize%%

Returns the file size prior to the replace made by Search and Replace.

%%srdate%%

Returns the current date of the machine.

%%srtime%%

Returns the current time of the machine.

%%srprepend%%
%%srappend%%

Used in Search and Replace scripts — The search string will be prepended or appended to the file as a literal string.

%%envvar=fruit%%

returns the contents of the SET fruit=strawberry environment variable. This can be used to customise boilerplate.

Tips

You can stop a search by hitting Search on the toolbar or press Ctrl-F. This should work even if you are caught is a error message loop.

It has a companion configuring utility srconfig.exe.

I recommend configuring it to put its favourites and scripts in some permanent data directory so they will get backed up, and so they won’t be lost on reinstall. Here is a script to annotate your CSS file colours adding a comment next to each colour number what X11 colour it is. view

Use Quoter to figure out which chars need to be preceded by \ in search and replace regex expressions. It is especially useful to find and replace standard sections of multiline boilerplate.

You can renumber items with the %n>> operator. You can write scripts to do relatively complex editing tasks on a series of files unattended. It is very quick.

Use HTML mode for search/replace when you have entities. You work with accented characters, and SR automatically replaces them to them entity equivalents.

Use ignore whitespace mode to treat spaces or Cr/Lf as just a single space in searching.

When you configure your editor, do it like this: F:\Program Files\vslick\win\vs.exe %PATH% rather than using %1 as you would in Windows.

Gotchas

If a script goes through the motions of replacing, but leaves the files unchanged, check the Expression in the advanced section of the script. It should read E1 OR E2 OR E3 OR E4 OR E5.

If you leave out the space in [Search /i] in a script, Search Replace will crash without error message.

It is confusing to compose search criteria with excludes because you specify directory excludes in the file mask. Click the … icon to the right of the file selection. There you an add multiple include/exclude directory/file selections relative to the file path selected. Normally you would to the includes first. If you click all, your directory selection in ignored. If you click Any # of levels under start directory the directory will match at any level in the path tree. If you click Also process its subdirectories then all files in the subdirectories of the directory matching will be included/excluded as well. This will be abbreviated to a couple of lines, that once you get the hang of it, that you could code directly,

e.g. to process all *.html files except ones in the kjv directory tree in the path E:\mindprod you would code file-mask: *.html;~\kjv\*\*.html path: E:\mindprod

I find the icons hard to tell apart. They are too fussy and too much alike. I wish I could replace them even with simple coloured shapes.

Funduc Icons

They are stored internally as 16 × 16 sections of a single image. They mean: search, replace, touch, file operations, case sensitivity, search subdirectories, word mode, regex, search zips, ignore whitespace, html mode, view context, copy results, view as HTML, print, script, options, help, about. The icons might look like:

(search)
! exclamation mark (replace)
T (touch)
F (file operations)
toggles between (case sensitive) and (case insensitive)
(search subdirectories)
W (word mode]
[…] regex
(search zips)
to suggest he idea of treating multiple lines as one big string (ignore whitespace)
&… (html mode)
V (view context)
C (copy results)
to suggest an bulleted list common in HTML. (view as HTML)
as now (print)
as now (script)
(options)
? (help)
(about).

I can’t think of better icons than the letters for now. If letters were used, they should use a variety of colours.

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