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1. 2 Volumes data de tern preview txt wind 1252 T ee ai v he 2 MW Volumes dataide rina nreview txt _ 1ITF 8 b nana ja Preview 1 l File encoding gt Display mode Editable source text Occurence 1 13 8 File backup Encoding UTF 8 C al Backup modified files Backup suffix back ee ee 6 D x 5 Tell whether you want to backup changed files or not p 2006 Show the Find amp Replace Editor Find amp Replace it Find amp Repl Previ Expression to tind ind amp Replace Preview Find Find amp Replace It SEERA SEERA AEE EEE EERE EEE EERE EEE EE EEE 7 Find and Replace It Find and cn DS 8 Sa Copyright c 2007 2010 dProg Philippe Docour LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL L FRRRR RRRRRRRRR R R ERER R ER RER R ER R S S S S ES What is Find amp Replace It Find and Replace It F LLLLLELLLLLLELLELLLEL LL LL LL LL L LL SSSA A SASHA FH AAAAAAAASE Find and Replace It Find and performing very complex batch replacements insi It supports regular expression syntax and dozen E P for chikare scripting capabilities which allow transforming Boke ia text for every found string It even handles ba I B 7 Enter the expression to search for T E3 M Replacement expression 7 Les Replace with Find and Replace It M Capture processing l Script processing C
2. QUrl PConnectionKey getUrl const ConnectionData s ConnectionData QUrl Url i Url setScheme ftp ME rs aies Url sethost ConnectionData Host he Labs Url setUserName ConnectionData User Matched length 18 Url setPassword ConnectionData Password Url setPath ConnectionData DirPath return Url Nom getConnectionData return La donn e de connexion demand e 22353553535555 ConnectionData s PConnectionKey getConnectionData const z home philip nectionKey h home philippe tionKeyDig cpp home philipp ectionKey cpp Display mode En Occurence 56 Encoding OS ds Highlight of matched expressions within a file The tool tip shows information about occurrence location Page 20 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual QUrl Url GPU if Url host isEmpty return false qDebug lt lt gPrintable Url toString QUrl RemoveUserInfo return Url isValid Nom getUrl return L url de connection quivalant cette cl QUrl PConnectionkey FU const ConnectionData s ConnectionData ConnectionDatal QUrl Url Url setScheme ftp Url setHost ConnectionData Host Url setUserName ConnectionData User Url setPassword ConnectionData Password Url setPath ConnectionData DirPath return Url Nom getConnectionData return La donn e de connexion demand e ConnectionDa
3. Regular Expression Editor K Syntax Regular expression v Horizontal tab 3 Vertical tab Form feed J a Line feed Invalid syntax bad repetition syntax BEL o LCariane return b zero or one occurence v Quantify Escape Copy as C C string Insert selected entity As soon as your wildcard or regular expression pattern becomes invalid it is underlined A tooltip provides a brief description of the syntax error detected 6 9 Advanced Replacements Advanced replacement covers three main features that makes Find amp Replace It really powerful e Injecting a fragment of the matched expression into the replacement text e Transforming a fragment of the matched expression before injecting it into the replacement text e Transforming any text that is going to be replaced by using a JavaScript interface Each of these points is described in the following chapters 6 9 1 Using of Captured Texts within Replaced Texts This feature requires regular expression syntax for the expression to find furthermore you should be familiar with captures within regular expressions To learn more about these notions we recommend to read the Regular Expressions chapter If you are familiar with regexp read on the following example Whenever you capture some text fragments with an expression to find Find captured text 1 non captured text captured text 2 Page 24 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual you can inject th
4. User name John Password KEK Activation key Activation key bc393aaf 3b85 da3f cfbd 12b6772a389e Valid through Activation expiry date end of demo version Thursday March 3 2011 The previous activation key used was recovered by clicking the button Get a trial key 3 Type or paste your activation key in the appropriate field 4 Press Activate product and wait for the answer 1 The activation process requires a connection to Internet 2 In case of success the activation window will be automatically closed Otherwise you might try again later In case of problem contact our support Product Activation User User name John Password SOR Activation key Activation key bc393aaf 3b85 da3f cfbd 12b6772a389e Valid through Once that the activation has been done there is no more possibility to use the demo version Note that if the field named Valid through is empty then your license will last forever otherwise your activation will be revoked by the date shown in this field Page 10 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual All activation keys refers to some hardware identifiers once they have been activated hence it is not possible to use the same activation key on several computers In the same way a trial key is unique for a certain hardware and thus it is not possible to obtain several trial keys for the same computer Once th
5. 100 amp home philippe dev content config xml a tigger er eat el grr er Ra ISO 8859 3 latin3 iso ir 109 csiSOLatin3 101 home philippe dev content content xml 102 home philippe dev d ntent controller php 1ISO 8859 4 latin4 iso ir 110 csiSOLatin4 ISO 8859 5 cyrillic iso ir 144 csISOLatinCynillic Page 16 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual If the codec name is set to Unknown for a given row that means that no codec seems to be consistent with the associated file content When one or more codecs are detected as acceptable the preferred text encoding is selected by default when it is available The list of acceptable codecs is automatically determined whenever a new file is displayed in the list but the list is not updated when files are changed on your harddrive For refreshing the encoding detection click on a This will detect the acceptable codecs for all found files listed The detection process will attempt to identify the charset that best matches the characteristics of the byte data but the process is partly statistical in nature and the results can not be guaranteed to always be correct For best accuracy in charset detection the input data should be primarily in a single language and a minimum of a few hundred bytes worth of plain text in the language are needed The detection process will attempt to ignore html or xml style markup that could otherwise obscure the content The charset de
6. Problems In case you encounter a reproducible crash we might request you to trace the application s activity This can be done by running Find amp Replace It from the command line with the trace argument This produces a trace file that might help us to identify when the crash occurs In order to trace the application activity you should go through the following steps 1 Open a terminal 2 Go to the software installation directory cd lt path to FindReplaceIt binary gt on Mac OS X cd Applications Find amp Replace It app Contents Macos 3 Type FindReplaceIt trace lt path to trace file gt xml The last command enables an advanced logging for debug purpose in case of problems Without the optional argument that specify a custom path for the trace file this command will generate by default a trace file named trace xml alongside the application executable file on Mac OS X Applications Find amp Replace It app Contents MacOS trace xml This file contains absolutely no personal information about you but data about internal running of the software We kindly request you to send us this trace file called trace xml at support dprog ch preferably in a compressed format Important Note If you do not have write permission into your installation directory use the additional parameter which comes after the trace argument in order to redirect the output into a directory that is writable Alternatively you might copy past
7. a license for the full version of the product you should activate your product with a serial code called Activation Key Without the activation the software can still be run in demo mode with some limitations You ll find more information in the Activation chapter In order to quickly get started with the main components of the GUI here is a 2 minutes guide All references to the online documentation and resources are listed on this documentation page Page 5 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 1 5 Support and Services For general information please visit our website at http www dprog ch The chapter End User License describes the licensing terms for Find amp Replace It If you have any questions about pricing and or license terms don t hesitate to write to us at order dprog ch All support requests regarding software usage as well as general questions about demo version must be addressed to support dprog ch Please note that support might be only available to registered customers or users who have a valid license for their software copies Moreover we kindly request our customers to use the online form for posting support requests This form is accessible through http www dprog ch home support Any User who has a valid license is eligible for free support services Finally you might read the online Terms of Use statement for details about services provided by dProg Philippe Docourt 1 6 What to Do in Case Of
8. and the following two exceptions characters do not have special meanings in square brackets A The caret negates the character set if it occurs as the first character i e immediately after the opening square bracket fabc matches a or b or c but abc matches anything but a or borc The dash indicates a range of characters W Z matches wor X or Yor Z Using the predefined character set abbreviations is more portable than using character ranges across platforms and languages For example 0 9 matches a digit in Western alphabets but d matches a digit in any alphabet Note In other regexp documentation sets of characters are often called character classes 8 4 Quantifiers By default an expression is automatically quantified by 1 1 i e it should occur exactly once In the following list E stands for expression An expression is a character or an abbreviation for a set of characters or a set of characters in square brackets or an expression in parentheses E Matches zero or one occurrences of E This quantifier means The previous expression is optional because it will match whether or not the expression is found E is the same as E 0 1 e g dents matches dent or dents E Matches one or more occurrences of E E is the same as E 1 e g 0 matches 0 00 000 etc zi Matches zero or more occurrences of E It is the same as E 0 The quantifier is often used in error where shou
9. by Apple For people who bought Find amp Replace It on the App Store there is no activation key required to use the software but there is no demo version available either Page 43 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 9 2 Third Party Licenses and Credits This section contains information on the different licenses Find amp Replace It is shipped with and credits to some of our many contributers This Software uses the Qt open source library from Nokia Corporation This library is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 1 plus some exceptions see http doc trolltech com 4 7 Igpl html The Qt binaries and source code are available for download at http qt nokia com downloads You are free to use your own versions of the Qt dynamic libraries instead of the ones shipped with the application See the Customizing Install section of http www dprog ch multimedia findreplaceit docs 1 4 install html title customizing installl for more details You are permitted to modify this Software for your own use only Reverse engineering for debugging such modifications is allowed For more details about licenses used by Qt please read the following links e http doc trolltech com 4 7 licenses html e http doc trolltech com 4 7 3rdparty html This Software uses the ICU open source library from IBM Corporation ICU is a mature widely used set of C C and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization suppor
10. define what you want to search or replace 1 2 Setup the expression you want to search Type your replacement pattern for matched occurrences of your expression in the Replace with text field Replacement expression Replace with la replacernent text Optionally you might schedule a backup of modified files Click on the A button to start searching your expression into the selected files If you need to stop the replacement click again on the same button which has been morphed into once the replacement has been started 6 6 Doing Backups of Files before Modification The File backup section allows you to create a backup for each modified files File backup Backup modified files Backup suffix Mark the backup check box as shown above Type a suffix for your backup files If a file with the same name already exists it will be replaced So you should consider to update the file suffix between each manipulation of the original file 6 7 Using the Find amp Replace Preview When editing an expression to search for it is convenient to match it against real data In order to achieve this let s take a tour of the Find amp Replace Preview window With the preview window you can visualize in one glance what are the texts who match a given expression what will be the replacement text and even mix both views It gives you an immediate feed back on what is going to change which makes easy to understand the impact of your re
11. encoding of a given set of files follow these steps 1 Select the files you want to convert with a check mark in the File path column within the Found files section see screenshot below aA LL a 1 W home common dev findrepl bic_sample_ISO 8859 6 txt 1ISO 8859 6 None Unix R W 90 es 24 05 10 08 44 2 Ww home commony dev findrepl g arabic sample UTF 8 txt Q UTF 8 None Unix R W 1KB 24 05 10 08 44 3 W home common dev findrepl g chinese_sample_Big5 txt Big5 None Windows R W 2KB 24 05 10 08 44 home common dev findrepl chinese_ sample UTF 8 txt UTF 8 None Windows R W 1KB 24 05 10 08 44 WwW home common dev findrepl tml_page_windows 1252 txt windows 1252 None Unix R W 13KB 24 05 10 08 44 6 home common dev findrepl ing example_cpp UTF 8 txt UTF 8 None Windows R W 41 KB 24 05 10 08 44 7 i home common dev findrepl mple_cpp_windows 1252 txt 1S0 8859 1 None Windows R W 41 KB 24 05 10 08 44 8 Mi home common dev findrepla french_accents_UTF 16 txt Q UTF 16 UTF 1 ndian Unix R W 72 tes 24 05 10 08 44 9 home common dev findrepl nch_accents UTF 8 BOM txt UTF 8 UTF 8 Windows R W 63 tes 24 05 10 08 44 a1 eS ae ee me Oe OO 2e UNE VD T a OU 7 VOS NON S S Y 2m les mnar as de AAT AN AM A A w File encoding Preferred text encoding Convert text encoding Convert line endings Generate byte order mark BOM if allowed when writing files Page 17 45 Find amp Repl
12. found File home gladys dev findreplacetool src res examples korean_sample_euc kr txt 62 occurences found 12 file s searched 521 occurences found Command processing duration 0 087 s Cc B The console showing a report for found expressions The report gives you some statistics 6 11 Editing the Preferences The preferences window lets you customize some settings This window is accessible via the menu Edit Preferences On Mac OS X this entry is located in the application menu as usual The available preferences are e General O Language This field indicates the current language used for the user interface You must restart the application for this change taking effect Max length of matched expressions This field indicates the maximum number of chars that can be matched by a regexp It is not possible to find or replace a string that is longer than this value For performance reasons it is strongly recommended not to increase too much this value Max size of files encoding cache This field indicates the maximum number of files for which the detected encoding data are cached The cache dramatically speeds up the encoding detection process However a very big cache can slow down the startup of the application due to the time for loading cache This time can usually be neglected in comparison to the performance increase during encoding detection Used preferred text encoding if no acceptable codec is detected C
13. gt fri Opens the given file 6 13 Using Find amp Replace It documents Working with documents allows you to save and recover your work However it is possible to work with or without an active document within Find amp Replace It By default there is no document created when the application is loaded In other words there is no active document set when the application starts Here are the three ways of starting to work with an active document e Using the File New menu D starts a new document and resets the user interface e Using the File Open menu 7 the opened document becomes the current one e Using the File Save menu D the current content of the user interface is saved and the freshly saved document becomes the new current document Having an active document has the following effects e Every time you try to quit the application you ll be asked to save your modifications if any e Every time you open or close a document you ll be asked to save your modifications if any e The name of the current document is shown in the title bar of the main window e Using the File Save menu will overwrite the document previously saved You might close the active document at any time by using the File Close menu This command will also reset the content of the user interface The documents generated by Find amp Replace It are suffixed by fri They are called UI files i e User Interface File for Find amp Replace It All
14. operation Page 33 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual Keypresses Action Ctrl Y Redoes the last operation Alt Wheel Scrolls the page horizontally the Wheel is the mouse wheel Ctrl Zooms in the text Ctrl Zooms in the text Tab in some text Indents the current selection Insert a tab if the the selection is empty areas Shift Tab in some Unindents the current selection Insert a tab if the the selection is empty text areas To select mark text hold down the Shift key whilst pressing one of the movement keystrokes for example Shift Right will select the character to the right and Shift CtritRight will select the word to the right etc 7 2 3 Undo Redo Changes It is possible to undo and redo any change made in a text area when this area is editable On the Edit tool bar or in the Edit menu simply click on e 7 Undo Ctri Z Redo Ctri Y 7 2 4 Changing Display Properties The commands located in the Text Display menu let you change the appearance of the active text zone content Zoom out Ctrl amp Zoom in Ctrl e Select a font All these commands are available for all text area int the software but they only apply to the last area that has been activated Therefore you might have to click somewhere inside a text area to get a result The default font and zoom can be restored with the Text Display Restore default font command It is pos
15. this date you can simply refuse the activation by pressing Use demo version and use the software in demo mode Once that the demo period expired the button is replaced with a button called Close Product Activation User User name Password Activation key Activation key Valid through Activation expiry date end of demo version Thursday Me 11 The demo period ended on March 3 2011 There is no other choice than activating the product Page 9 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 3 2 Full Version The activation process registers your activation key so that your personal login will own it An activation is necessary to gain access to the full version of the product The activation requires the following steps 1 Enter your login for www dprog ch website i e you have to register first on our website 2 1 Get an activation key or recover a previous activation key 1 You can get a 30 day trial key for activating your copy by clicking on Get a trial key 2 You can buy an activation key by clicking on Buy a key You should receive your activation key by e mail once you have bought it 3 You can recover the last activation key used on your computer e g after a new install by clicking on Get a trial key You should then get a message announcing that your activation key has been synchronized This works either for a trial key or a perpetual key Product Activation User
16. would match in tonne E Positive lookahead This assertion is true if the expression matches at this point in the regexp For example const s char matches const whenever it is followed by char aSin static const char Compare with const s char which matches static const char E Negative lookahead This assertion is true if the expression does not match at this point in the regexp For example const s char matches const except when it is followed by char 8 7 Wildcard Matching Most command shells such as bash or cmd exe support file globbing the ability to identify a group of files by using wildcards The Syntax combo box is used to switch between regexp and wildcard mode Wildcard matching is much simpler than full regexps and has only four features C Any character represents itself apart from those mentioned below Thus ce matches the character c Matches any single character It is the same as in full regexps ji Matches zero or more of any characters It is the same as in full regexps Sets of characters can be represented in square brackets similar to full regexps Within the character class like outside backslash has no special meaning In the mode Wildcard the wildcard characters cannot be escaped In the mode Wildcard Unix the character escapes the wildcard For example if we are in wildcard mode and have strings which contain filenames we c
17. 50 8859 1 None Unix R W 3KB 17 04 09 20 02 lector fi ctor qtc gdbmacros gdbmacros cpp IS0 8859 1 None Unix R W 77KB 17 04 09 20 02 lector fileselector ui_PFileSelectorFrm h Unknown None de Unix R W 15KB 18 09 10 13 41 6 2 Detecting or Selecting the Encoding of Files Character set detection is the process of determining the character set or encoding of character data in an unknown format This is at best an imprecise operation using statistics and heuristics Because of this detection works best if you supply at least a few hundred bytes of character data that s mostly in a single language In some cases the language can be determined along with the encoding Several different techniques are used for character set detection For multi byte encodings the sequence of bytes is checked for legal patterns The detected characters are also check against a list of frequently used characters in that encoding For single byte encodings the data is checked against a list of the most commonly occurring three letter groups for each language that can be written using that encoding The detection process is configured to ignore html or xml style markup which can interfere with the detection process by changing the statistics The Found files section shows the found files according to your current options for searching files The column Encoding is the only one that is editable by the user You can choose by hand the appropriate codec for
18. 9 6 7 1 Previewing as Plain TXT ie ie dede E droite 20 0 72 Proviewing as FEMI S SSSR ai ae ea A TAEA ENEE cie a eee donne 22 6 8 Using the Regular Expression Editor 23 6 9 Advanced Replacements ainor tentent nn R 24 6 9 1 Using of Captured Texts within Replaced Texts 24 6 9 2 Processing the Captured Texts with Built In Functions 26 6 9 3 Processing the Replaced Texts by Script 27 6 10 WSinGuine OUDUE WINOOWE SR Reese lee Ne 30 Gs TT GING the Preferentes iii M NM nn nes co0 dci tendre Diners mere tit 30 OF 1Z SING the Command Line seorsan D cee dase ea aed eee 31 6 13 Using Find amp Replace It GOCUMENIS steps Musset nids miinenlslemmn esse 32 CPS and PIG ER A Pet Peaaes Dawid aia Sasenemeu ences 33 FV WIE RGOC UMMC MG ADS 2 a E eine teats 33 F2 WORKING WIN TXT AT AS nn sented en nae d usar nn ro atin 33 L2 INAV IG AU cerca neces cec etude hecicea seaue N E 33 12 ZE OI TE Eo A de nee a en nd D a sd emcee den te 33 1 2 9 Un0O Redo Change S ansin na MN AA M PS desde 34 7 2 4 Changing Display Properties 34 7259 Searching or Text in TEXC AL CAS 2e 2e Le S 34 7 3 Using Logical Folders for Searching Files 35 7 4 Multi File Selection in the Found Files List ss 35 AO GOUMING EXAMP E S ocala sh cai ac dt en nd 35 TO DEDUGOING SCM RS ER bien k ede saceareterechaneae 36 o Regular EXDr SSIONS sts ate pata hs de dt de tn dire 37 5 Pat g ee 6 1 Ce dc geese naa ee 37 8 2 Characters and Abb
19. AboutDig h Q UTF 8 Uncheck selection Ctri Alt U 20 09 10 1 14 home common dev ezconne ui PConnectionKeyDlg cpp UTF 8 Toggle check marks on selection Space 20 09 10 1 15 home common dev ezconnec c gui PConnectionKeyDig h UTF 8 nos or dai 20 09 10 1 angi p x Check mark all files Ctri Shift C 16 j home common dev ezconnect src gui PMainFrm cpp Q UTF 8 D Ce 20 09 10 1 Uncheck all files Ctri Shift U 17 home common dev ezconnect src gui PMainFrm h Q UTF 8 20 09 10 1 Refresh file list F5 18 4 home common dev ezconnect src twofish AES H 150 8859 1 s 20 09 10 1 Detect file encoding Ctri D 19 home common dev ezconnect src twofish DEBUG H Q 150 8859 1 WITT IT USU 20 09 10 1 20 W home common dev ezconnect src twofish PLATFORM H 150 8859 1 None Windows R W 2KB 11 01 09 05 23 20 09 10 1 7 5 Getting Examples There are some sample files shipped with Find Replace It Under Windows and Linux these files are located within the following directory lt application install dir gt res examples On Mac OS X these files are located in lt application install dir gt Find amp Replace It app Contents Resources exam ples Page 35 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual The files suffixed with fri are Ul files i e User Interface File for Find amp Replace I t Such files contain stored user interface data and can be opened with A buttons The files suffixed with txt are sample data provided for convenien
20. Find amp Replace It Version 1 4 5 ie A User Manual Last update May 2011 Copyright 2009 2011 dProg Philippe Docourt All rights reserved Table of Content l ADOUC FINS FRED ACO Tee ntm ite sua dean te nettes a nee 4 TES CUMIN N Yate ae a ost a Pen ce eee eld tee ee See a de en id fe a ee 4 t2 MaM F ENUOS Re dns encens dette net este ct Dec 5 ko SUBhOT dIP ATOS SRE ace Dee aa a den enr 5 14 Getind SAr dn RM eave CS NU a tre b mes a ones tie 5 tO DUD DOM ANG SOI VICSS e enr n de re tune sautant nee ams ten anse Read tata dent nager te ent 6 1 6 Whatt Doin Case OF PrODI MS sn na A nn di sens nine 6 k7 KNOWN Issues and LiIMITATIONS Lise ne ns nana mens E de nue ne ii ant 6 ZSO ee ne de a ee A te ce eee 8 SA N LATE geen eer eo etcetera ae ee eC ae ene eee nee 9 Set DEMO VETS Oenema e tite nn nn tee res enr il in Ness ore 9 SZ FUI V CU SIONS A a a TS Senseo 10 AUS er NENA Enn a otal tees ee Saree ieee cee ete he 12 5 Two Minute Guide to Replacing Text in Files 14 OFUNLO aE A a et ee enn mn ee er ee ee O a eee 15 0 1 Selecting Files 1OPFOCCSS Lo Le ta Re net ne ans Don tn NN MS sine 15 6 2 Detecting or Selecting the Encoding of Files 16 6 3 Converting the Encoding of FIl8S 22888 errant nine nent tfet eus 17 6 4 Searching for an Expression in Files 18 6 5 Replacing a Given Expression in Files 19 6 6 Doing Backups of Files before Modification 19 6 7 Using the Find amp Replace Preview 1
21. Hence to get a license for the full version of the product you should activate your product with a serial code called Activation Key Without the activation the software can still be run in demo mode with some limitations You ll find more information in the Activation chapter The license will last forever provided you do not reinstall your copy of the software on a different hardware configuration see mportant Notes below The license covers all minor updates e g all 0 x y releases Some major updates e g from 0 x to 1 x might be included in the license but without guarantee Important Notes e One license allows you to install the software on only one computer at one time e Alicense is valid for only one type of operating system i e Linux Mac or Windows e We kindly request people who have two computers running the same type of operating system either Linux Mac or Windows to contact our support to get a second key for free e If your hardware configuration has changed you might require an update of your license in order to reactivate the product Such an update is totally free of charge e All demands regarding the licenses updates should be addressed to support at dprog dot ch 9 1 2 End User License for App Store Customers If you buy this Software on the App Store from Apple you must confirm your acceptance of the Software and agree to become bound by the terms of the agreement as specified in the EULA provided
22. P 2 temp Simple text a 3 Jui Wildcard w Found files Filter sre Syntax Simpletext 7 W Case sensitive filter Case sensitive sort c e x File path v Encoding BOM End of line R W Size Modified x 17 home common dev ezconnect src gui PM ainFrm h UTF 8 None Windows R W 4KB 18 07 09 15 50 18 home common dev ezconnect src twofish AES H 150 8859 1 None Windows R W 10 KB 25 01 09 22 12 19 home common dev ezconnect src twofish DEBUGH Q 150 8859 1 None Windows RW 2KB 11 01 09 05 23 20 W Ihome common dev ezconnect src twofish PLATFORM H Be Q 150 8859 1 None Windows R W 2KB 11 01 09 05 23 21 home common dev ezconnect wofish PTwofishWrapper cpp UTF 8 None Windows R W 9KB 18 07 09 15 50 22 4 home common dev ezconnect src twofish PTwofishWrapper h UTF 8 None Windows R W 2KB 18 07 09 15 50 v 1 Select a folder to search in This is the root path where you want to scan for files You can type a path directly in the Search in text field or use the button on the right 2 Choose to search files recursively into sub folders or not by toggling the Search in sub folders check mark When searching recursively you can choose to include the hidden folders or not with the Include hidden and system folders check box 3 Enter zero one or many file name filters within the File name filter field These filters interpret wildcard characters like They must be comma separated 4 Optionally add one or more expressions to exclude some fil
23. Replace It User Manual 3 Activation There are two ways of using Find amp Replace It either in demo mode or in full featured mode Every time you start the application a dialog window will ask you to activate your copy of Find amp Replace It or to run it in demo mode Note For people who bought Find amp Replace It on the App Store from Apple there is no activation key required to use the software but there is no demo version available either In that case this chapter does not concern you 3 1 Demo Version In demo mode you don t need to proceed with activation meaning you don t need an activation key or a login on our website The demo version comes with all major features except that you can neither save configuration files nor replace text directly in files However the preview window let you see the result of replacements in a read only mode Product Activation User User name Password Activation key Activation key Valid through _Getatrialkey Buyakey Activation expiry date end of demo version Thursday Me 11 Help NN eee Ge The demo version is available until March 3 2011 The activation window shows you an expiry date for activating the software After this date the software will not start any more without being activated first Until this date you can simply refuse the activation by pressing Use demo version and use the software in demo mode Until
24. ace It User Manual select the current text encoding of these files if the auto detected encodings are not accurate Select the target encoding for your set of files Optionally you can select the Generate Byte Order Mark BOM check box This will insert the BOM Byte Order Mark at the beginning of the file when it is written This option only apply to Unicode text encoding UTF 8 UTF 16 and UTF 32 Note that this option may interfere with the target encoding For instance if you choose an Unicode encoding that does not allow the BOM it will turn your target encoding to the closest Unicode encoding that allows it Optionally you might schedule a backup of modified files Click on the button r to start the encoding conversion If you want to stop the conversion process click on the button 1O 6 4 Searching for an Expression in Files The Find amp Replace Editor pane allows you to define what you want to search or replace The Expression to find section allows you to setup an expression to search for Note Expression to find Find 70d 70d st immi ae Syntax Regular expression w O Case sensitive C Minimal match Enter the expression to search into the Find text field Alternatively you might use the button to edit your expression with the Regular Expression Editor You can choose the way your expression must be interpreted through the Syntax drop down list o Simple text or fixed string mean
25. also possible to apply an additional processing to captured strings before injecting them as a replacement expression This can be handle with the Capture processing section Capture processing Capture available Capture processing i To E case s a 2 Apply script a 4 No process for capture Capture 1 and 2 are available but not capture 3 distinct process has been attached to each capture however it is not compulsory The left column is not editable The check mark is toggled depending on the presence of captures and placeholders respectively within the expression to find and within the replacement pattern The right column let you choose a transformation to apply to the capture before injecting it as the replacement text at its placeholder location Let s imagine that we want to upper case the first letter that follows a sign inside a file A tedious solution might be to replace all a with A bwith B and so on This will take some time And then what happens with accentuated letters or oriental characters What happens if a tab sometimes replaces the whitespace after the sign What if there no whitespace at all or many white spaces due to a typing mistake This solution is definitively inappropriate Here is a better way to handle this task Find s w The expression above will match all followed by any number of whitespace characters including tabs and line breaks and at a
26. anced regular expressions even if you are a newbie e Provides a preview for found and replaced text The preview window gives you an immediate feed back that makes easy to check the impact of your replacement within any file without modifying its content This is especially useful whenever you are searching for a complex expression and you don t want to replace it blindly in many files This is of course an excellent regex tool that let s you easily test your regular expressions e Makes it possible to dynamically adjust the replacement text It provides many ways of dynamically adjusting the replacement text according to the context For instance it is possible to reuse a fragment of the found expression into the replacement text do arithmetic operations on found text insert the path or the name of the processed file apply conditional operations on the replacement string JavaScript interface manipulate dates etc These key features associated to many others makes it one of the most feature rich tool to find and replace regular expressions over multiple files It s also a powerful tool for converting the text encodings charsets conversion including the Byte Order Marks or the end of line delimiters across multiple files In addition it s probably the only software in this category that is portable These key features associated to many others makes it one of the most feature rich tool to find and replace regular expressions over multi
27. apture available Capture processing S encoding of files as well as of types of end o wall 8 Enter the expression to replace with Her are five key points that make the differen J ia N F i Handles more than 50 text encodings b f your are stucked with some UTF 8 encoding 6 l or any others non ASCII encodings Find amp Ref 7 10 Click on the appropriate button to Start solution for you It also handles the differe searching or replacing text in files Handles huge files If you want to process any kind of dump filesi text like a log of 10 GB Find amp Replace It C 7 14 9 Verify the matched expressions in the preview 11 Show the Output window 12 Verify the statistics on texts found or replaced Page 14 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 6 Functions 6 1 Selecting Files to Process The files to be searched and or converted can be selected through the panel called Files Selector There are two sections that work together for searching and selecting files They are Search scope and Found files Search scope Search in home common dev ezconnect M ea W Search in subfolders Include hidden and system folders k is File name filter c cpp cxx c h hpp hxx h LJ x File path exclusion filter Filter syntax Case sensitive 1 3rdparty Simple text o
28. apturedTexts 1 toString length p __proto__ object Object Take in account that the converted value is about ten times smaller b captureCount 2 D x 4 therefore we subtract one digit to represent it with same acuracy gt capturelndex 3 15 digitCount 1 7 l FRE ID Peas Cd Get the number of captured decimals original decimal count 17 digitCount replaceCommand capturedTexts 2 toString length gt capturedTexts windiest Ouput the formatted value with an equivalent number of digits b endOffset 3 19 convertedValue toPrecision digitCount b findExpression 2 d 2 d else gt replacementLength 2 For the other indexes i e 1 to 3 we simply output the current replacement text p replacementPattern 0 gt 22 replaceCommand replacementText gt replacementText 10 b startOffset 0 undefined undefined gt unescape function native b versinn function nativel Console EJ 22 replaceCommand replacementText 8 if replaceCommand captureIndex 0 22 replaceCommand replacementText i qsdb gt Error Log Debug Output Console Script debugger in action On the right we can see the Locals dock window which displays the current context provided by the replaceCommand object user manual for script debugger is available at http doc trolltech com 4 7 qtscriptdebugger manual html Page 36 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 8 Regular Expressions A regular expression or rege
29. bc5 e usr lib netscape plugins libc6 e usr lib64 netscape plugins e usr lib64 mozilla plugins e Locations specified by environment variables e MOZILLA HOME plugins e MOZ PLUGIN PATH e QTWEBKIT PLUGIN PATH Windows e The user s Application Data Mozilla plugins directory e Standard system locations of plugins for Quicktime Flash etc Mac OS X e Library Internet Plug Ins in the user s home directory e The system Library Internet Plug Ins directory 6 8 Using the Regular Expression Editor When you need to write a multi line expression to search the Regular Expression Editor is your best friend The multi line edition is shown bellow with a simple text expression Regular Expression Editor amp Syntax Simple text v White Here is a long expression on TURN several lines that l d like to search Jers chanter All expressions typed in this editor use mica Line Feed LF U 00A character as line Line feed break cariage retum Some more text Some more text some mor iii gt Copy as C C string Note that all line break are internally represented by a Line Feed character LF U 00A If you want to search for a multi line expression with another style of line break we strongly advise you to use a regular expression with appropriate s sequences in order to match any kind of end of line Page 23 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual In addition this editor simplifies the setup of reg
30. ce in order to easily test the capabilities of Find amp Replace It Most examples provided alongside Find amp Replace It are available as a separate package which can be downloaded from hitp www dprog ch home download see Find amp Replace It Advanced Replacement Examples 7 6 Debugging Script When willing to script some replacement texts it is convenient to debug the script Find amp Replace I comes with an integrated debugger To start the debugger click on the Execute in debugger button located under the script editor The debugger will show up QE Script Depugger Debug Search View gt O0 M TP 1i te Loaded Scripts x j Function to convert millimeters to inches Stack Ge p lt anonymous script 2 function convertMillimetersToInches valueinMilimeters egal inane PeT gt lt anonymous script 3 return valuelnMilimeters 25 4 eee Main processing We want to output a custom replacement for capture at index 0 i e full expression Locals amp 8 if replaceCommand capturelndex 0 Convert the numerical value captured at current index i e 0 from millimeters to inches Name v Value 10 var convertedValue convertMillimetersTolnches replaceCommand captureText gt print unction native Get number of digits to format output v replacecommand Tobiect Obiect Breakpoints af 12 var digitCount replaceCommand c
31. cessing e Displays matched expressions reports for file search replace operations e Full featured dynamic preview of matched expressions and replacements e Provides tools for converting text encoding e Provides tools for converting line endings Windows Unix Macintosh Unicode e Detects text encoding and line endings of files e Provides advanced filtering options for selecting files that need to be processed including file name filters and file path exclusion filters e Allows you to load and save expressions to find replacement definitions and file filters e Handles huge files gt 10 GB e Regular expression editor tester e Fully multi threaded for fast processing and responsiveness e Allows you to cancel long operations e GUI is totally modular e Creates backup of changed files if required e Exports the search and replace reports e Cross platform Windows Mac OS X and Linux 1 3 Supported Platforms Please refer to the appropriate installation instructions available at http www dprog ch multimedia findreplaceit docs 1 4 install html title supported platforms The supported platforms varies over time Therefore you are kindly requested to use the appropriate link with the appropriate version number findreplaceit docs lt version gt install html to get the correct notice 1 4 Getting Started The installation instructions are available here Find amp Replace It is protected by a licenses system Hence to get
32. convertedValue toPrecision digitCount else ij HOF Che Other andexes 1 65 U0 2 27 4 7 we Simply OuCEUE the current replacement text replaceCommand replacementText That s it As an alternative we might remove the outer parentheses then use 0 as replacement pattern instead of 1 and adjust the script accordingly Page 29 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 6 10 Using the Output Window The Output window is a multi document preview for find and replace reports Every time you search for an expression within files a report will be outputted to the active console tab The report includes links to files that contain searched replaced expressions A simple click on this link will open the file within Find amp Replace Preview A double click on this link will open the file with a suitable application Output amp File nome gladys dev findreplacetool src res examples chinese_sample_big5 txt 24 occurences found File home gladys dev findreplacetool src res examples chinese_ sample _utf 8 txt 13 occurences found File home gladys dev findreplacetool src res examples english_web page cp1252 html 186 occurences found File home gladys dev findreplacetool src res examples example_cp1252_ cpp txt 109 occurences found File home gladys dev findreplacetool src res examples example_utf 8 cpp txt 109 occurences found File home gladys dev findreplacetool src res examples japanese sample euc jp txt 18 occurences
33. duct activation requires an Internet connection There is no other way to activate your copy of the software Unfortunately Find amp Replace It cannot handle MS Word documents Pages PDF or others It is very powerful to manipulate text files but is limited to thereto The binary documents like those of MS Word are usually described in a proprietary format For example it is not directly possible to extract the text content of a paragraph from a Word document Indeed in this case the text of the paragraph does not appear in clear text in the contents of the DOC file To get the plain text one must first process the document and the requested manipulations are not documented by Microsoft However even if it did these manipulations are extremely complex formatting tables etc and such a feature will far exceed the range of a simple utility software Page 7 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 2 Installation Please refer to the appropriate installation instructions available at http www dprog ch multimedia findreplaceit docs 1 4 install html These instructions might vary from a version to another Therefore you are kindly requested to use the appropriate link with the appropriate version number findreplaceit docs lt version gt install html to get the correct installation notice The installation notice covers the supported platforms how to install the software under Windows Mac and Linux Page 8 45 Find amp
34. e beginning of the string match one digit followed immediately by O or 1 more digit followed immediately by end of string To write a regexp that matches one of the words mail or letter or correspondence but does not match words that contain these words e g email mailman mailer and letterbox Start with a regexp that matches mail Expressed fully the regexp is m 1 l a 1 1 if 1 1 1 1 1 but because a character expression is automatically quantified by 1 1 we can simplify the regexp to mail i e an m followed by an a followed by an i followed by an 1 Now we can use the vertical bar which means or to include the other two words so our regexp for matching any of the three words becomes mail letter correspondence Match mail or letter or correspondence While this regexp will match one of the three words we want to match it will also match words we don t want to match e g email To prevent the regexp from matching unwanted words we must tell it to begin and end the match at word boundaries First we enclose our regexp in parentheses mail letter correspondence Parentheses group expressions together and they identify a part of the regexp that we wish to capture Enclosing the expression in parentheses allows us to use it as a component in more complex regexps It also allows us to examine which of the three words was actually matched To force the match to begin and end on word boundaries we enclose the regexp in b word b
35. e paths when searching for files This can be achieve with the T button These filters can use wildcard or regular expression syntax Note that all file paths are described with separator whatever the platform or system locale is It is possible to remove filters by selecting the appropriate rows and then clicking on 5 Select files that you want to process in the found files list Unmarked files are not going to be read or touched The content of this list is updated whenever you change search options You can filter the content of this list through the file path filter above the list view Click the column header to sort that column The scan of the harddrive for searching files is a pretty long operation when running on a very large directory structure however it is possible to stop it at any time by clicking on or by pressing the Escape key Page 15 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual The column labelled R W indicates the file permissions for the reading or writing If the reading is not allowed on a file it cannot be selected and consequently it cannot be processed In that case the permissions appear on a red background File path z Encoding BOM End of line R W Size Modified lector fil tor PFilePathFilterProxyModel cpp 150 8859 1 None Unix RAN 14 es 18 09 10 13 41 o lector fileselector PFileSelectorFrm h Q Unknown None Unix R W 80 eS 18 09 10 13 41 lector fi debug moc_PFileSelectorFrm cpp 1
36. e product has been activated the activation dialog no longer shows up at startup time However this dialog might reappear from time to time if your hardware or software configuration has changed In this case you will simply have to reactivate your key This will automatically update your hardware ID in our database If too many changes occur the activation might be refused In such a case we kindly request you to contact us in order to reactivate your copy of the software You can check your activation key at any time through the Help Activate product menu as shown below by Finde Replace t 0 6 0 File Edit View Text Display Tools kJ A x Content Fl e al ry f Buy product t Check for updates 2 Product home page 2 Video tutorials 4 Support request About Find amp Replace It Page 11 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 4 User Interface The GUI of Find amp Replace It consists of seven panes that you can arrange in any way you want You can select which component must be displayed as central widget you can dock panes side by side arrange them in tabs or make them float Adjust the windows layout to the way you like to work This enables you to be at ease on a wide range of screen resolutions from your laptop with its 13 3 inch display up to your 30 inch di
37. e your installation into a folder where you can have write access to be sure the trace file will be generated 1 7 Known Issues and Limitations The text encoding detection uses heuristics that do not always provide accurate results except for all Unicode encodings i e UTF 8 UTF 16 UTF 32 Since version 1 0 the charset detection has been greatly improved Since this version we use the ICU library from IBM However the process is partly statistical in nature and the results can not be guaranteed to always be correct For performance reasons the Find amp Replace Preview has a content limit of 100 000 000 characters By default this limit is fixed to 5 000 000 to increase search speed This can be changed through the preferences panel For performance reasons it is not possible to search for an expression longer than 50 000 000 characters By default this limit is fixed to 5 000 000 to increase search speed This can be changed through the preferences panel Page 6 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual The product activation requires an Internet connection There is no way to proceed with activation by phone or any other communication channel For the sake of performance the end of line detection reads a maximum of 10 MB of the analyzed file The file creation date is not preserved when a file is modified by a search and replace operation It is not possible to do batch replacements directly from the command line yet The pro
38. each file with a click on the appropriate row in the Encoding column This will show up a drop down list of available codecs as shown below File path v Encoding BOM End of line R W Size Modified Created 8 home commonj dev index local htm UTF 8 None Unix R W 1 KB 21 07 09 18 08 11 09 10 10 47 9 home common de mple index htm UTF 8 None Unix R W 1 KB 23 06 10 08 07 11 09 10 10 47 10 w home common de ample style css Q SO 88 11 home common de tes product php 150 8859 1 Unix R W 53 es 21 07 09 18 08 11 09 10 10 47 150 8859 1 latin1 CP819 IBM819 iso ir 100 csISOLatin1 lessons 11 09 10 10 47 The best codec for processing text encoding of each file is detected using statistics and heuristics and it is selected by default Please note that these heuristics are only reliable for detecting Unicode charsets For other encodings it will only give you some suggestions There might are many acceptable codecs and they are all marked with a blue light on the left side of the drop down list This is shown below Found files ISO 2022 JP JIS7 Filter components SEES A VER EE 4 1SO 8859 1 latin1 CP819 IBM819 iso ir 100 csISOLatin1 ISO 8859 10 iso ir 157 Case sensitive filter Case sensitive sort ISO 8859 13 File path v ISO 8859 14 iso ir 199 latin8 iso celtic 98 home philippe dev in content html php ISO 8859 15 latin9 a m 8859 2 latin2 iso ir sISOLatin2
39. elf unless it has a special regexp meaning e g c matches the character c c A character that follows a backslash matches the character itself except as specified below e g To match a literal caret at the beginning of a string write a Matches the ASCII bell BEL 0x07 f Matches the ASCII form feed FF 0x0C n Matches the ASCII line feed LF OxOA Unix newline r Matches the ASCII carriage return CR 0x0D t Matches the ASCII horizontal tab HT 0x09 Page 38 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual Element Meaning v Matches the ASCII vertical tab VT OxOB xhhhh Matches the Unicode character corresponding to the hexadecimal number hhhh between 0x0000 and OxFFFF 0000 matches the ASCII Latin1 character for the octal number ooo between 0 and i e zero 000 0377 dot Matches any character including newline d Matches a digit D Matches a non digit s Matches a whitespace character including line separators S Matches a non whitespace character w Matches a word character letters numbers marks and _ W Matches a non word character n The n th backreference e g 1 2 etc 8 3 Sets of Characters Square brackets mean match any character contained in the square brackets The character set abbreviations described above can appear in a character set in square brackets Except for the character set abbreviations
40. es a string we know that one of the words matched but not which one Using parentheses allows us to capture whatever is matched within their bounds so if we used mail letter correspondence and matched this regexp against the string I sent you some email we can use the x replacement pattern to extract the matched characters in this case mail We can use captured text within the regexp itself To refer to the captured text we use backreferences which are indexed from 1 the same as for x For example we could search for duplicate words in a string using b w W 7 b which means match a word boundary followed by one or more word characters followed by one or more non word characters followed by the same text as the first parenthesized expression followed by a word boundary If we want to use parentheses purely for grouping and not for capturing we can use the non capturing syntax e g green blue Non capturing parentheses begin and end In this example we match either green or blue but we do not capture the match so we only know whether or not we matched but not which color we actually found Using non capturing parentheses is more efficient than using capturing parentheses since the regexp engine has to do less book keeping Captured text can be accessed in replacement pattern using 30 which returns the full matched expression or using i with 1 lt i lt 9 which returns the captured string at the given index Both capt
41. ese captured fragments into your replacement pattern This is done with a 31 32 39 pattern Where the number that follows the percent sign is the capture index 30 is a special implicit capture that includes the full matched expression 1 replacement text 2 Let s imagine we have a CSV file containing contacts like in the following snippet Replace with First Name John Family Name Smith Phone First Name Mike Family Name Dupont Phone We want to swap the first two columns Here we have to capture two variable expressions first name and family name and move them around Here is an easy way to do it Find First Name Family Name The parentheses in expression above will capture two fragments of every matched occurrences in the CSV file Replace with oo 1 ao 2 The replacement pattern above is a dynamic text that varies for every matched occurrences In fact 1 will be replaced by the content matched by the first parentheses scope Idem with 2 and the second parentheses scope If you use n where n is greater than the number of captures then INJECTION _ n will be inserted in the replaced text If you need to replace some text with a literal n in a situation where you captured some texts with your regexp you ll need escaping the n sequence This can easily be done by adding a 3 sign in front of the sequence Note that the escapement
42. ey bindings Keypresses Action LeftArrow Moves the cursor one character to the left CtrltLeftArrow Moves the cursor one word to the left RightArrow Moves the cursor one character to the right Ctrl RightArrow Moves the cursor one word to the right UpArrow Moves the cursor one line up DownArrow Moves the cursor one line down PageUp Moves the cursor one page up PageDown Moves the cursor one page down Home Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line CtrltHome Moves the cursor to the beginning of the text End Moves the cursor to the end of the line Ctrl End Moves the cursor to the end of the text Ctrl G Moves the cursor to the beginning of a given line This opens a popup for selecting the line number where one wants to jump to 7 2 2 Editing Text This is the list of key bindings which are implemented for editing Keypresses Action Backspace Deletes the character to the left of the cursor Delete Deletes the character to the right of the cursor Ctrl C Copy the selected text to the clipboard Ctrl Insert Copy the selected text to the clipboard Ctri K Deletes to the end of the line Ctrl V Pastes the clipboard text into text edit Shift Insert Pastes the clipboard text into text edit Ctrl X Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard Shift Delete Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard Ctrl Z Undoes the last
43. ge 21 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 6 7 2 Previewing as HTML In addition to the plain text preview you can activate the HTML Viewer through the button That will enable you to preview HTML documents with either their original or altered content without having to save them HTML Viewer amp Q Signin Register My Account dProg Philippe Docourt Home Products Download Support About Us Galle _ Find amp Replace It Presentation New Features a ene What is Find amp Replace It Documentation ee EEE i Summary Tutorials a _ ER _ Us ere Find amp Replace It is a powerful cross platform text file processor It allows you to perform very complex Prici batch replacements inside text files of any size It supports regular expression syntax and dozens of nen encodings It can batch processing the encoding of files as well as style of end of line Read on to discover the main features of Find amp Replace It Alternatively you can dive into the screenshot gallery for a quick preview of its capabilities If you want to go deeper and learn more about i Find amp Replace It we suggest that you have look at both the video tutorials and the user manual fda FREE TRIAL BUY Resources base URL http www dprog ch home v Q Q M Enable JavaScript Enable Java Enable plugins The HTML preview in action with our own website The viewer is directly synchronized with the current content
44. he table below summarizes the context information made available to the script Properties of Object or replaceCommand Data Type Description Invariable properties these variables do not change during the process of a given matched expression findExpression RegExp Matched regular expression startOffset Number Starting offset of matched expression in the full text endOffset Number Ending offset of matched expression in the full text captureCount Number Number of captures contained in the expression to find capturedTexts Array Array of captured strings within the full matched expression Page 27 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual Variable properties these variables vary depending on the capture for which the script is called captureIndex Number Index of the current capture for wich the script has been called This index is included between 0 and captureCount E captureText String Captured text at current capture index This property returns the full matched expression when capturelndex is zero and returns an empty string when capturelndex equals captureCount 1 Otherwise it returns the captured string at the given index starting from 1 replacementLength Number Length of the current replacement text This length takes in account already replaced placeholders i e i replacementText String Current replacement text This text contains the content of alread
45. hecking this box will force the preferred encoding whenever no acceptable encoding can be automatically proposed This will force also the preferred codec for binary files e Find amp Replace preview O Max size of preview This field indicates the maximum number of chars that can be loaded in the preview window If you try to load a file which is longer than this value the end of the file will be ignored For performance reasons it is strongly recommended not to increase too much this value Page 30 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual o Color of found expressions This editor shows the background color used to highlight found expressions o Color of replacement text This editor shows the background color used to highlight replaced text o Wrap lines Checking this box will cause words to be wrapped at the right edge of the text area Wrapping occurs at whitespace keeping whole words intact o Activate syntax highlighting Checking this box will activate syntax highlighting in the preview area Syntax highlighting is only available for JavaScript C C and XML HTML files Preferences General Language Max length of matched expressions 5M chars i Max size of files encoding cache a 200000 files Use preferred text encoding if no acceptable codec is detected Find amp replace preview Max size of preview 5M chars found expression Color of found expressions some te
46. ld be used For example if s is used in an expression to match strings that end in whitespace it will match every string because s means Match zero or more whitespaces followed by end of string The correct regexp to match strings that have at least one trailing whitespace character is s E n Matches exactly n occurrences of E E n is the same as repeating E n times For example x 5 is the same as xxxxx It is also the same as E n n e g x 5 5 E n Matches at least n occurrences of E E m Matches at most m occurrences of E E m is the same as E 0 m Page 39 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual E n m Matches at least n and at most m occurrences of E To apply a quantifier to more than just the preceding character use parentheses to group characters together in an expression For example tag matches a t followed by an a followed by at least one g whereas tag matches at least one occurrence of tag Note Quantifiers are normally greedy They always match as much text as they can For example 0 matches the first zero it finds and all the consecutive zeros after the first zero Applied to 20005 it matches20005 Quantifiers can be made non greedy through the check box Minimal match 8 5 Capturing Text Parentheses allow us to group elements together so that we can quantify and capture them For example if we have the expression mail letter correspondence that match
47. ll have you ever had this one piece of text you wanted to modify in hundreds of files at the same time like that copyright in your php jsp cpp java file or that URL in your html files No more need to open text files one by one to edit them Find amp Replace It can replace any contents inside of many text files in just a click It let you filter files to process according to your wishes then you only need to enter the text to find and the text to replace to start the replacement It provides statistics about the number of replacements within each individual file and counts the number of processed files Of course all classical features of such a tool like the possibility to save your job backup modified files export the replacement report and much more are available So far Find amp Replace It looks like a classical search amp replace utility like many others on the web However here are five key points that make the difference with its competitors e Handles more than 50 different kinds of text encodings If you are stucked with any UTF 8 encoding any Chinese contents or any others non ASCII encodings Find amp Replace It is the solution for you It also handles the different kinds of end of line e Handles huge files If you want to process any kind of files containing tons of text like a log of 10 GB Find amp Replace It will do it for you e Provides a regular expression editor This editor offers tools to easily build adv
48. ocated on the left side bar of the main window These seven icons are shown below te ee bv VA Files Selector Find amp Replace_ HTML Viewer Find amp Replace_ Preview Editor Shortcut Ctrl 1 Shortcut Ctri 2 Shortcut Ctrl 3 Shortcut Ctrl 4 CO a in Regular Expression _ Find Text Output Editor Shortcut Ctrl 5 Shortcut Ctrl 6 Shortcut Ctrl 7 Page 12 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual Every pane also called widget panel or window can be floating stacked one on the others or just docked As you can see the three central widgets of the three pre configured layouts are also available as dockable widgets when one of the other two pre configured layout is selected In other words when a particular window is displayed as a central widget it is not any more available as a dockable window This simply means you can t have twice the same window on the screen If you have two or more stacked widgets on the others in the same dock area you can see them as tabs at the bottom of the area For example when the Find Text is stacked on the HTML Viewer you get that Find Text x Find It Case sensitive Whole word Find Text HTML Viewer Page 13 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 5 Two Minute Guide to Replacing Text in Files koko Find amp Replace It m pi Show the File Selector window iiia earch scope CS A a 2 Select the folder in which to search fo
49. of plain text preview That means the Display mode will also apply on the HTML content Because the viewer cannot resolve relative links in the HTML document from the content of the preview you might need to enter an appropriate URL This URL is used to process all resources referenced by relative links within the document i e CSS images scripts etc This is not required when all resources are given with absolute path The HTML Viewer provides rendering of HyperText Markup Language HTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML and Scalable Vector Graphics SVG documents styled using Cascading Style Sheets CSS and scripted with JavaScript Some common plugins are also supported through the Netscape Plugin API provided you have appropriate binary files for those plugins installed on your computer The following locations are searched for plugins Linux Unix e mozilla plugins in the user s home directory e netscape plugins in the user s home directory e System locations such as e usr lib browser plugins e usr local lib mozilla plugins e usr lib firefox plugins e usr lipb64 browser plugins e usr lib browser plugins e usr lib mozilla plugins e usr local netscape plugins e opt mozilla plugins Page 22 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual Linux Unix e opt mozilla lib plugins e opt netscape plugins e opt netscape communicator plugins e usr lib netscape plugins e usr lib netscape plugins li
50. on x let you clear the contents of the active preview close the current preview tab or close all tabs It is possible to preselect the preferred codec for the preview of upcoming files In fact the active codec of the preview is used as preferred codec for the next opened file It is also possible to reload the content of the file in the preview with the button Thus the selected codec will be used to read the file It is possible to copy the file path of the active preview to the clipboard by right clicking on the tab bar In the same way it is also possible to open the active document within the default editor associated to this type of file Note that all line breaks in the preview are internally represented by a Line Feed character LF U 00A This is always true whatever the original end of line used in the displayed file If you want to search for a multi line expression with another style of line break we strongly advise you to use a regular expression with appropriate s sequences in order to match any kind of end of line The following screenshots illustrate some of the capabilities described above Find amp Replace Preview DRE if m EncryptedConnectionData isEmpty return false QUrl Url getUrl if Url host isEmpty return false qDebug lt lt gPrintable Url toString QUrl RemoveUserInfo return Url isValid Nom getUrl return L url de connection quivalant cette cl
51. only applies in front of a digit i e O to 9 Everywhere else the escapement is not processed Here are some examples Text to process Find Replace with Result ab cd w 1 ab cd 56 78 d 1 2 56 INJECTION 2 78 INJECTION 2 56 78 d 1 2 56 2 78 2 56 dt 1 1 56 d 1 1 56 78 d 1 96 78 56 78 d 1 Y 1 1 56 78 d 2 Y 02 Yo 2 56 78 d 1 96 78 56 78 d 2 INJECTION 2 INJECTION 2 ab w z 1 z ab ab wt z 1 Yo 0Z 1 ab wt Z 1 z ab In the examples above the pattern w matches any sequence of one or more letters or digits The same applies to digits only with the pattern d These examples assume that the regexp is not set to minimal match Please read the Regular Expressions chapter for more details on the regexp syntax Page 25 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 6 9 2 Processing the Captured Texts with Built In Functions This feature requires regular expression syntax for the expression to find furthermore you should be familiar with captures within regular expressions To learn more about these notions we recommend to read the Regular expressions chapter If you are familiar with regexp read on the following example As shown in the previous chapter it is possible to inject captured texts into your final replacement string through a special syntax It is
52. ould identify HTML files with html This will match zero or more characters followed by a dot followed by h t mand 1 Wildcard matching can be convenient because of its simplicity but any wildcard regexp can be defined using full regexps e g htm1 Notice that we can t match both html and htm files with a wildcard unless we use htm which will also match test html bak A full regexp gives us the precision we need htm1 S 8 8 Notes for Perl Users Most of the character class abbreviations supported by Perl are supported by regexp s see characters and abbreviations for sets of characters In regexps apart from within character classes always signifies the start of the string so carets must always be escaped unless used for that purpose In Perl the meaning of caret varies automagically depending on where it occurs so escaping it is rarely necessary The same applies to which in regexps always signifies the end of the string Regexp s quantifiers are the same as Perl s greedy quantifiers Non greedy matching cannot be applied to individual quantifiers but can be applied to all the quantifiers in the pattern For example to match the Perl regexp ro m requires ro m and Minimal match t rue The equivalent of Perl s i option is Case sensitive check box turned on In regexp matches any character therefore all regexps have the equivalent of Perl s s option Regexp does not have an equivalent to Perl s m option but
53. oundary assertions b mail letter correspondence b Now the regexp means Match a word boundary followed by the regexp in parentheses followed by a word boundary The b assertion matches a position in the regexp not a character A word boundary is any non word character e g a Space newline or the beginning or ending of a string If we want to replace ampersand characters with the HTML entity lt amp the regexp to match is simply But this regexp will also match ampersands that have already been converted to HTML entities We want to replace only ampersands that are not already followed by amp For this we need the negative lookahead assertion __ The regexp can then be written as amp amp i e Match an ampersand that is not followed by amp lf we want to count all the occurrences of Eric and Eirik in a string two valid solutions are b Eric Eirik b and bEi ri ck b The word boundary assertion b is required to avoid matching words that contain either name e g Ericsson Note that the second regexp matches more spellings than we want Eric Erik Eiricand Eirik Some of the examples discussed above are implemented in the examples section Regexps can match case insensitively using the Case sensitive check box and can use non greedy matching when the Minimal match mark is checked 8 2 Characters and Abbreviations for Sets of Characters Element Meaning c A character represents its
54. placement within a file without actually modifying its content Such a realtime visualization is especially useful whenever you want to build a complex expression to search for The preview can also be used as a multi document editor Here are the key features of this tool check the impact of a given text encoding when applied to a file content edit a text sample against which you want to match an expression to find preview matched occurrences of an expression to find inside a given text sample preview resulting content of a text sample after the replacement of all occurrences of your expression with your replacement pattern preview both found expressions and processed replacements inside a text sample navigate through found occurrences of a specific expression or replacement pattern preview HTML documents Page 19 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 6 7 1 Previewing as Plain Text You can open files in the preview by clicking on amp The button allows saving the content of the preview The name displayed in the tab will be used as the file name for saving If the label of the tab is not a valid file path you will have to select a destination file You can force to select a destination file path by using the dropdown arrow beside the button and select Save as The dropdown button let you start a new preview document or use the contents of the active preview as source text for a new preview _8 The dropdown butt
55. ple files It is also a powerful tool for converting the text encodings charsets conversion including the Byte Order Marks and the end of line delimiters across multiple files In addition it is probably the only software in this category that is portable The GUI of Find amp Replace It consists of seven panes that you can arrange in any way you want You can dock panes side by side arrange them in tabs or make them float Adjust the windows Page 4 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual layout to the way you like to work Find amp Replace It comes with four pre arrange layouts that can be customized the way you want depending on the size of your screen You can switch from one layout to another in a simple click 1 2 Main Features The list below describes some of the most important characteristics of Find amp Replace It e Find and replace across many files at once e Supports regular expression syntax e Allows multi line matching e Supports many text encodings including Unicode e g UTF 8 e Preserves line endings while processing files e Preserves BOM while processing Unicode files e Allows you to perform dynamic replacements based on found expression captures e Provides built in processing function for dynamic replacements e g convert captured expressions to lower case Base64 encoding Hex encoding UTF 8 encoding etc e Provides a JavaScript like interface to customize replacements on the fly by script pro
56. r files ndreplaceit src res examples replaceme lor y Search in PA Breeds Carpe rs a ea a Copyright c 2007 2010 dProg Philippe Docourt V Search in subdirectories A D FREES EEE EERE AER EAE EEE E EERE EERE EEE LC LLLTE O J enee File name filter txt csv dat ini rl X l l d 3 Enter the appropriate filters to search for files La File path exclusion filter Filter syntax Case sensitiv 7 1 images Simple text a PR EERE ERE EERE EEE EERE EEE EE ee a Find amp Replace It Find and Replace It is a powe 4 Check mark all files to process performing very complex batch replacements insid en It supports regular expression syntax and dozens E search replace convert encoding etc scripting capabilities which allow transforming La text for every found string It even handles bat gt F encoding of files as well as of types of end of ound files a Here are five key points that make the differenc Lommel Filter X Syntax Simple text 24 Handles more than 5 text encodings E RSR RENE If your are stucked with some UTF 8 encoding oes or any others non ASCII encodings Find amp Repl gt VI Case sensitive filter V Case ee ANS c es solution for you It also handles the differer te Encoding 0 Handles huge files If you want to process any kind of dump files ches preview csv ISO 8859 9 text like a log of 10 GB Find amp Replace It F
57. r s home directory Here is an example of how to use the variable HOME_DIR Search in HOME_DIR dev ezconnect Lassa Search in subfolder Get folder for searching home philippe dev ezconnect The tool tip shows the real file path obtained after evaluating the variable 7 4 Multi File Selection in the Found Files List To operate on many files at once it is possible to use the context menu on the Found files list This menu let you act on the the current selection As shown below possible actions on selected files are toggling check marks selecting encoding loading files in the preview Applying an action on a selection of files Note that Open file in test preview will open all selected files as distinct documents within Find amp Replace Preview File path y Encoding 3 Fi Created dm Open file in preview Ctri Shift P 8 d a PSetti M f e 09 5 home common dev ezconne ase PSettingsManager cpp UTF 8 Doen Ne in ite in Chie shift p 20 09 10 1 Ban home common dev ezconnec c base PSettingsManager h UTF 8 Copy path to clipboard 20 09 10 1 10 home common dev ezconne base PrecompiledHeader h UTF 8 Select a codec for selection Ctri Shift T 20 09 10 1 21 a home common dev ezconnect src base main cpp UTF 8 Select preferred codec for selection Ctri T 20 09 10 1 12 w home common dev ezconnect src gui PAboutDig cpp Q UTF 8 Check mark selection Ctri Alt C 20 09 10 1 13 4 home common dev ezconnect src gui P
58. reviations for Sets Of Characters 38 Orr SIS Ol Comal ACCS ER de Dias Gla enc ets Sete uae eae erase D Ace 39 9 AQUANET cre ere en I RR Ve eee ee 39 Oz AWA VOX ie cacao et D Ad let esta 40 S GASSION A a A Rd dd une lake hands te a etic tell et a 40 8 Wildcard Matching ee aaa ATE 41 0 0 Notes Or Perl USES ait ixc mute cus Scts ee auistewcusustinenensunudeuvagdatnsanwewid ocantuiuGaenstiavadiealantatuatenaumuneacnauss 41 DEAD 2 eae nee tone eae E DR el d s 42 J IC NSINd NATONMAR OM saat Geaccs tenga a dns een ch dent Ci bene eect eek 43 OF iMG WSCMEIGCM SCS RSR RL ES tonton Om eines 43 9 1 1 End User License for NON App Store Customers 43 9 1 2 End User License for App Store Customers aa a 43 9 2 Third Party Licenses and Credits 44 9 3 Trademarks Find amp Replace It User Manual 1 About Find amp Replace It 1 1 Summary Find amp Replace It is a high end solution to find files and execute search and replace operations across multiple files It allows performing very complex batch replacements inside text files of any size It supports regular expression syntax and dozens of encodings It has scripting capabilities which allow transforming on the fly the replacement text for every found string It even handles batch processing of the encoding of files as well as of types of end of lines Why and when do you might need to use it We
59. rt see http www dprog net joomla products topmenu 29 qt integration scripts Most of the icons used in this Software are free icons provided under either the GNU Lesser General Public License v2 1 see http www gnu org licenses Igpl 2 1 txt or in the public domain special thanks to the authors e The Tango project members authors of Tango icon theme http tango freedesktop org Tango Desktop Project e Everaldo Coelho author of Christal icon collection http www everaldo com crystal e David Vignoni author of Nuvola icon set http Awww icon king com projects nuvola e Nokia Corporation author of Qt icons http gt nokia com Page 44 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 9 3 Trademarks dProg the dProg logo Find amp Replace it and the Find amp Replace It logo are trademarks of dProg Philippe Docourt in Switzerland Nokia the Nokia logo Qt and the Qt logo are trademarks of Nokia Corporation and or its subsidiaries in Finland and other countries Intel Intel Inside logos MMX and Pentium are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States other countries or both Java and all Java based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the United States other countries or both Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States other countries or both Mac Mac OS App Store and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc registered in the U S and other co
60. s that the pattern to be matched is interpreted as a plain string i Syntax Simple text o _ Wildcard is similar to the functionality found in command shells o Wildcard Unix This is similar to Wildcard but with the behavior of a Unix shell The wildcard characters can be escaped with the character o Regular expression is a pattern for matching substrings in a text Select the options that apply when matching against your expression Case sensitive _ Whole word The Minimal match match option is only available when Regular expression syntax is set This turns the quantifiers in non greedy mode Select the files you want to scan with a check mark in the File path column Select the current text encoding of these files if the auto detected encodings are not accurate Optionally you can test your expression with the Find amp Replace Preview Click on the button to start searching your expression into the selected files If you need to stop the search click again on the same button which has been morphed into x once the search has been started For performance reasons it is not possible to search for an expression longer than 50 000 000 characters By default this limit is fixed to 5 000 000 to increase search speed This can be changed through the preferences panel Page 18 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 6 5 Replacing a Given Expression in Files The Find amp Replace Editor pane allows you to
61. sections containing this button D support persistent serialization Therefore you can save an expression alongside with its replacement pattern and script as well as all components for searching and filtering files Of course the twin button A enables you to load a file previously saved As mentioned before the File menu provides a way of saving and loading the full content of the interface In fact using the File Save menu is almost equivalent to concatenate all files generated by all J buttons of all sub windows If you open a fri file from a sub window button e g Find amp Replace Editor only the content related to this sub window will be loaded Hence you can easily load only a part of a file saved from the File Save menu This also means that if you open a file generated from a sub window inside another sub window nothing will be loaded In the same way opening a file generated from a specific sub window with the the File Save menu only loads the content of the specific sub window leaving all other windows intact Page 32 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 7 Tips and Tricks 7 1 Multi document Tabs Some components use tabs to display multiple documents To manually open a new document tab use this button To close a document tab click on the button E located on the corresponding tab 7 2 Working with Text Areas 7 2 1 Navigating text The content of any text area can navigated with the following k
62. sible to print the content of the active text area through the Text Display Print command 7 2 5 Searching for Text in Text Areas It is possible to search for text within any text area of the graphical interface Simply click on in the Edit tool bar or in the Edit menu This will show up the Find Text window Find amp The search will occur in the last area that has been activated The background is colorized in green when there is a match in red when there is no match Page 34 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 7 3 Using Logical Folders for Searching Files Sometimes searching files in a folder given by its absolute path is not convenient For instance it does not allow you to reuse your configuration saved in a fri file on a different computer when files are not located in the same folder Moreover you might want to distribute fri files without showing your file system structure to people who receive the fri files In order to specify a folder to search for files without actually having to type its absolute path we provide three logical folders accessible through the following variables e APP_DIR This variable refers to the directory s path that contains the application executable It varies depending on where the software has been installed e CURRENT_DIR This variable refers to the absolute path of the application s current directory e HOME_DIR This variable refers to absolute path of the use
63. space In the following example we match strings containing mail or letter or correspondence but only match whole words i e not emai b mail letter correspondence b Match words mail letterand correspondence I sent you an email Do not match Please write the letter Match The second string matches Please write the letter The word letter is also captured because of the parentheses We can see what text we ve captured like this 1 1 letter This will capture the text from the first set of capturing parentheses counting capturing left parentheses from left to right The parentheses are counted from 1 since 0 0 is the whole matched regexp equivalent to amp in most regexp engines amp amp Match ampersands but not samp THIS 36 Chat Match one occurrence at index 6 His g amp amp hers amp theirs Match one occurrence at index 16 Page 42 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 9 Licensing Information 9 1 End User Licenses The terms This Software below refer to Find amp Replace It 9 1 1 End User License for NON App Store Customers By installing and or using this Software you are confirming your acceptance of the Software and agreeing to become bound by the terms of the agreement as specified in the EULA http www dprog ch multimedia findreplaceit docs 1 4 license_en html Find amp Replace It is protected by an activation system
64. splay Find amp Replace It comes with three pre arrange layouts one for each possible central widget that can be customized the way you want depending on the size of your screen You can switch from one layout to another in a simple click Three panes can take place in the center of the main window e Files Selector e Find amp Replace Editor e Find amp Replace Preview 1 Te When toggled each of these panes becomes the center of a pre arranged layout that can i be customized The left side bar of the main window provides a shortcut for toggling the visibility of these windows To have the Files Selector as the central widget you have to select The visibility of this central widget can be toggled by pressing Ctrl F1 To have the Find amp Replace Editor as the central widget you have to select The visibility of this central widget can be toggled by pressing Ctrl F2 Sl i This central widget can t be moved but it can be resized to become more or less large and more or less high To have the Find amp Replace Preview as the central widget you have to select The visibility of this central widget can be toggled by pressing Ctr F3 The top bottom and right not left areas around the central widget are classical dock areas for dockable widgets To toggle the visibility of the windows that you want to have on the screen you have to check mark some of the seven icons l
65. t for software applications ICU is widely portable and gives applications the same results on all platforms and between C C and Java software ICU is released under a nonrestrictive open source license that is suitable for use with both commercial software and with other open source or free software see http source icu project org repos icu icu trunk license html This Software uses the Syntax Highlighters plugins from Philippe Docourt This is a collection of Qt plugins for managing syntax highlighting It allows you to dynamically add syntax higlighting capabilities to your Qt applications Currently it supports syntax highlighting for qscript javascript C Java C and html xml documents This collection of plugins is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 1 see http www gnu org licenses Igpl 2 1 txt The source code of thess plugins are available for download at http www dprog net joomla products topmenu 29 syntax highlighters The Linux installer uses an auto extractable archive generated by makeself makeself sh is a small shell script developped by St phane Peter that generates a self extractable archive see http megastep org makeself The Windows installer is generated by NSIS Nullsoft Scriptable Install System an open source system to create Windows installers see http nsis sourceforge net Main_ Page This Software is built with the Qt Integration Scripts package from Philippe Docou
66. t least a word character In the Capture processing section select To upper case as process for the first capture This will transform to upper case the content matched by the first pair of parentheses before injecting it as 1 in the replacement pattern Finally we replace with 1 oo If the built in capture processes are not sufficient you might try the scripting interface Page 26 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual 6 9 3 Processing the Replaced Texts by Script Find amp Replace It has the ability to dynamically transform the texts to be replaced This involves mixing all the classical possibilities of regular expressions with JavaScript programming It is possible to look for very complex patterns with regular expressions However a simple replacement by a static text is most of the time insufficient Hopefully Find amp Replace It provides a JavaScript like interface to customize replacements on the fly The scripting feature gives all the power of JavaScript to format whatever you need and the regular expressions simply select where to apply the script This feature especially useful whenever you need some logic to interpret an expression and generate a replacement pattern based on it e g find all numbers in a text and divide them by a given factor to convert units One of the most powerful feature of Find amp Replace It is its ability to dynamically transform the texts to be replaced This in
67. t will also match integers that occur in the middle of strings If we want the matched integer to be the whole string we must use the anchor assertions caret and dollar When is the first character in a regexp it means the regexp must match from the beginning of the string When is the last character of the regexp it means the regexp must match to the end of the string The regexp becomes 0 9 1 2 Note that assertions e g and do not match characters but locations in the string If you have seen regexps described elsewhere they may have looked different from the ones shown here This is because some sets of characters and some quantifiers are so common that they have been given special symbols to represent them 0 9 can be replaced with the symbol 1 This chapter is taken from the Qt documentation from Nokia available under LGPL It as been adapted to fit the purpose of this manual Page 37 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual d The quantifier to match exactly one occurrence 1 1 can be replaced with the expression itself i e x 1 1 is the same as x So our 0 to 99 matcher could be written as d 1 2 S lt can also be written d d 0 1 S i e From the start of the string match a digit followed immediately by 0 or 1 digits In practice it would be written as d d S The is shorthand for the quantifier 0 1 i e O or 1 Occurrences makes an expression optional The regexp d d S means From th
68. ta s PConnectionkey 6nneetionDatal const y home philipp ectionKey cpp Highlight of replaced expressions within a file t return false QUrl Url getUrl un if Url host isEmpty return false qDebug lt lt gPrintable Url toString QUrl RemoveUserInfo return Url isValid Nom getUrl return L url de connection quivalant a cette cl QUrl PConnectionKey getUrl FUl const ConnectionData s ConnectionData getConnectionData QUrl Url Url setScheme ftp Url setHost ConnectionData Host Url setUserName ConnectionData User Url setPassword ConnectionData Password Url setPath ConnectionData DirPath return Url Nom getConnectionData return La donn e de connexion demand e f SaaS SSS SSS SS SSS SSS SSS SSS SS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS EEE ConnectionData s PConnectionKey getConnectionData onnectionDatal const af I 4 Q J gt home philipp ectionKey cpp x Occurence 4 6 Display mode Eng ne Highlight of both found and replaced expressions within a file The tool tip shows information about replacement location Note For performance reasons the Find amp Replace Preview has a content limit of 100 000 000 characters By default this limit is fixed to 5 000 000 to increase search speed This can be changed through the preferences panel Pa
69. tal letter in the English alphabet is written as A Z A quantifier specifies the number of occurrences of an expression that must be matched x 1 1 means match one and only one x x 1 5 means match a sequence of x characters that contains at least one x but no more than five Note that in general regexps cannot be used to check for balanced brackets or tags For example a regexp can be written to match an opening html lt b gt and its closing lt b gt if the lt b gt tags are not nested but if the lt b gt tags are nested that same regexp will match an opening lt b gt tag with the wrong closing lt b gt For the fragment lt b gt bold lt b gt bolder lt b gt lt b gt the first lt b gt would be matched with the first lt b gt which is not correct However it is possible to write a regexp that will match nested brackets or tags correctly but only if the number of nesting levels is fixed and known If the number of nesting levels is not fixed and known it is impossible to write a regexp that will not fail Suppose we want a regexp to match integers in the range 0 to 99 At least one digit is required so we start with the expression 0 9 1 1 which matches a single digit exactly once This regexp matches integers in the range 0 to 9 To match integers up to 99 increase the maximum number of occurrences to 2 so the regexp becomes 0 9 1 2 This regexp satisfies the original requirement to match integers from 0 to 99 but i
70. tection is a pretty long operation when running on thousands of files however it is possible to stop it at any time by clicking on x or by pressing the Escape key If you need detecting the encoding on a few files only you might use the command named Detect files encoding for selection in order to avoid performing the detection on thousands of files In order to increase performances of encoding detection as well as end of lines detection all data are stored in a cache That means that once a the text encoding or line ending has been detected the detection does not occur anymore These cached data are automatically refreshed whenever the file is modified However in case you really want to forcing a new detection you can clear at any time the cached content with the command Clear current cached files encoding cache located in the context menu of the Found files table view The number of files for which the se encoding information are cached can be set in the preferences panel If you need to look at the decoded content of a file right click on a file entry then click on Open_ file in test preview This will allow you to play with the codec used to decode the file Note Character set detection is at best an imprecise operation The text encoding detection uses heuristics that do not always provide accurate results except for all Unicode encodings i e UTF 8 UTF 16 UTF 32 6 3 Converting the Encoding of Files For converting the text
71. this can be emulated in various ways for example by splitting the input into lines or by looping with a regexp that searches for newlines Because regexp is string oriented there are no A Z or z assertions The G assertion is not supported but can be emulated in a loop Perl s amp is 30 There are no regexp equivalents for or Perl s capturing variables 1 2 correspond to 1 2 inside search pattern and 21 32 inside replacement pattern etc Page 41 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual Perl s extended x syntax is not supported nor are directives e g i or regexp comments e g comment Both zero width positive and zero width negative look ahead assertions pattern and pattern are supported with the same syntax as Perl Perl s look behind assertions independent sub expressions and conditional expressions are not supported Non capturing parentheses are also supported with the same pattern syntax 8 9 Examples A d d s Match integers from 0 to 99 123 Do not match 6 Do not match 6 Match The third string matches 6 This is a simple validation regexp for integers in the range 0 to 99 A S Match strings without whitespaces Hello world Do not match THiS PS OK Match The second string matches This_is OK We ve used the character set abbreviation S non whitespace and the anchors to match strings which contain no white
72. ular expression It provides tools to manage regular expression entities On the right side of the text editor there is a list of available regular expression entities e g special characters grouping expression etc If you leave the mouse over an item of this list a explanatory tooltip will appear This is show in the figure bellow Regular Expression Editor S x Syntax Regular expression v Horizontal tab IL Vertical tab F feed bget A z0 9_ A z0 9_ ine feed BEL Cariage return Word boundary Mon word boundary A word boundary For example the regexp bOK b means match immediately after a word boundary e g start of string or whitespace the letter O then the letter K immediately before another word boundary e g end of string or whitespace 1 of string But note that the assertion does not actually match any whitespace so if we write pn capturing parenthesis bOK b and we have a match it will only contain OK even if the string is sitive lookahead It s OK now gining of string 2gative lookahead Included in character set Excluded of character set zero or one occurence v Quantify Escape Copy as C C string Insert selected entity The Regular Expression Editor has some nice features like syntax highlighting and scope matching e g matching scope for TT The Regular Expression Editor offers an automatic syntax check for wildcard and regular expressions
73. untries Microsoft Windows Windows NT XP Visual Studio Word and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries All other company product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others and are the property of their respective owners Page 45 45
74. uring and non capturing parentheses may be nested 8 6 Assertions Assertions make some statement about the text at the point where they occur in the regexp but they do not match any characters In the following list E stands for any expression ii The caret signifies the beginning of the string If you wish to match a literal you must escape it by writing For example include will only match strings which begin with the characters include When the caret is the first character of a character set it has a special meaning see Sets of Characters The dollar signifies the end of the string For example d s S will match strings which end with a digit optionally followed by whitespace If you wish to match a literal you must escape it by writing b A word boundary For example the regexp bOK b means match immediately after a word boundary e g start of string or whitespace the letter then the letter K immediately before another word boundary e g end of string or whitespace But note that the assertion does not actually match any whitespace so if we write bOK b and we have a match it will only contain OK even if the string is It s OK now B A non word boundary This assertion is true wherever b is false For example if we searched for Bon B in Left on the match would fail space and end of string aren t Page 40 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual non word boundaries but it
75. volves mixing all the classical possibilities of regular expressions with JavaScript programming It is possible to look for very complex patterns with regular expressions However a simple replacement by a static text is most of the time insufficient Therefore the scripting feature gives us all the power of JavaScript to format whatever we need and the regular expressions simply tell us where to apply the script To carry out any of the mentioned examples above you only have to write an appropriate script in the script editor Your script will be called at three different occasions All of them can be accumulated as desired e Once with the original replacement pattern and the full matched expression e Once for each captured text in your expression if the capture process has been set to Apply script e Once at the very end of the process after all capture processing with the resulting replacement pattern Script processing function printContextVars replaceCommand findExpression replaceCommand startOftset replaceCommand endOftset replaceCommand captureCount replaceCommand replacementPattern replaceCommand capturedtTexts printContextVars Q Wrap lines Execute in debugger A dummy script outputting invariable properties from the scripting context The scripting interface provides a simple way to access the context of the current match as well as the replacement pattern through the global replaceCommand object T
76. xp is a pattern for matching substrings in a text This is useful in many contexts e g Searching A regexp provides more powerful pattern matching than simple substring matching e g match one of the words mail letter or correspondence but none of the words email mailman mailer letterbox etc Search and Replace A regexp can replace all occurrences of a substring with a different substring e g replace all occurrences of amp with amp amp except where the amp is already followed by an amp The Find amp Replace It regexp is modeled on Perl s regexp language It fully supports Unicode The regexp can also be used in a simpler Wildcard mode that is similar to the functionality found in command shells The syntax rules used by regexp can be changed through the Syntax combo box In particular the pattern syntax can be set to Simple text which means the pattern to be matched is interpreted as a plain string i e special characters e g backslash are not escaped A good text on regexps is Mastering Regular Expressions Third Edition by Jeffrey E F Friedl ISBN 0 596 52812 4 8 1 Introduction Regexps are built up from expressions quantifiers and assertions The simplest expression is a character e g x or 5 An expression can also be a set of characters enclosed in square brackets ABCD will match an Aora Bora Cora D We can write this same expression as A D and an experession to match any capti
77. xt eo eplacement tex CHIGALETITIE LEAL Color of replacement text some text Wrap lines Activate syntax highlighting The preferences window with default settings In order to restore the default settings simply click on Restore Defaults 6 12 Using the Command Line It is not possible to do replacements directly from the command line yet However the command line offers a few interesting features Command Action Effect Changes the locale used to lt local_code gt E g FindReplacelt locale lt locale_code gt FindReplaceIt locale fr CH activates the Swiss French locale Resets all settings clears pre loaded content JFindReplacelt reset settings resets font settings resets window positions etc The application is not launched Enables tracing of application s activity This enables advanced logging for debug purpose in JFindReplacelt trace case of problems This might be useful for reporting lt path to trace file gt xml a_crash to our support team Without the optional argument that specify a custom path for the trace file this command will generate by default a trace Page 31 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual file named trace xml alongside the application executable file Prints the full name and version of the application FindReplacelt version The application is not launched JFindReplacelt lt path to fri file
78. y replaced placeholders i e i All placeholders that have not been replaced at the time of accessing this property i e i gt aptureIndex are internally represented by INJECTION _ i All escaped sequences of are already treated in the text returned by this property The scripting interface also provides a simple way to access some properties of the file being parsed You can read these properties through the global currentFile object The table below summarizes the context information made available to the script Properties of Object or currentFile Data Type Description Invariable properties these variables do not change during the process of a given matched expression filePath String Full file path absolute including the name of the file dirPath String Absolute directory path where the file is located fileName string Full file name including the extension Let s imagine we have a text file containing numerous numerical values All of these values represent a length given in millimeters We would like to convert all these distances from millimeters to inches Sounds tricky to you Script processing enables you to handle that task like any other replacement task First we setup an expression that matches all numbers integers and floating point dt d As a replacement we simply inject the full captured number 1 alo In order to appl
79. y some script on the replacement pattern activate capture processing i e check mark set process to Apply script then activate the script processing editor option as shown below Capture processing Script processing Capture available Capture processing Function to convert millimeters to inches Toy function convertMillimetersTolnches valuelnMilimeters IL Apply script return valuelnMilimeters 25 4 2 No process for cz Page 28 45 Find amp Replace It User Manual Finally copy and paste the following script within the script editor Y PURE L ion Cocoon Vert li imeters Lo Inches function convertMillimetersTolnches valuelnMilimeters return valucinMilimeters 25 4 We want to output a custom replacement for capture at index 1 if replaceCommand capturelIndex 1 Convert the numerical value captured at current index i e 1 from millimeters to inches var convertedValue convertMillimetersToInches replaceCommand captureText Get number of digits to format output var digitCount replaceCommand capturedTexts 2 toString length Take in account that the converted value is about ten times I SMalIery LHErELOre Wo SUDC oC One Gigi oO represent dE with same accuracy dige ouni ie Get the number of captured decimals original decimal count digitCount replaceCommand capturedTexts 3 toString length Ouput the formatted value with an equivalent number of digits

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