Find text and replace or delete

[markj2009]

Good Afternoon,

If this has been answered previously, I appologise, I did not have much luck in a search.

I would like AutoIT script to search a .doc or .txt document finding the Social Security number of individuals and then deleting it, taking care of this through the whole document. It can be done with macro, but that only goes for like 10 lines then you have to click on the macro again to go the next 10 searches. I have tested scripts in AutoIT that I have found that find and replace... but not delete entire text: SSAN: XXX-XX-XXXX

[iamtheky]

look at stringregexpreplace

Edited January 7, 2011 by iamtheky

[Melba23]

markj2009,

SRER is not the easiest thing to pick up quickly, so here is how you might you go about it.

Read the content of the file with FileRead.

Then run this SRER on the text:

$sText = "Tom SSAN: 111-11-1111, Dick SSAN: 222-22-2222, Harry SSAN: 333-33-3333"

; This is the magic line <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$sNewText = StringRegExpReplace($sText, "( SSAN: \d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4})", "")

MsgBox(0, "Result", $sNewText)

Finally rewrite the file with FileWrite.

Give it a go and see how you get on.

M23