_ReplaceStringInFile wildcard

[gigilihooie]

I have searched and I found one thing, but it didnt help me. I am wondering, can you use wildcards for it?

Example script.

$String = "xxxx"
_ReplaceStringInFile("ex.txt", $String, GUICtrlRead($Input))

The user can input anything so it will change the "xxxx" to say "1h4d", and then again to "hl8s".

Is that possable?

PS: I know it needs a GUI, its just an example.

[PsaltyDS]

I have searched and I found one thing, but it didnt help me. I am wondering, can you use wildcards for it?

Example script.

$String = "xxxx"
_ReplaceStringInFile("ex.txt", $String, GUICtrlRead($Input))

The user can input anything so it will change the "xxxx" to say "1h4d", and then again to "hl8s".

Is that possable?

PS: I know it needs a GUI, its just an example.

No, _ReplaceStringInFile() does not have any wildcards.

You can read the whole file into a string (if less than about 100MB) and use StringRegExpReplace() for that.

[gigilihooie]

This isnt really working for me. Maybe im just doing it wrong. When I try, to replace XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX with seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser it replaces each X with seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser. Any ideas?

[PsaltyDS]

This isnt really working for me. Maybe im just doing it wrong. When I try, to replace XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX with seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser it replaces each X with seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser. Any ideas?

Post what you tried.

[gigilihooie]

MsgBox(0, "title", StringRegExpReplace("XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX", "[.?*]", "seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser"))

I have tryed \w, [X] (that wont replace the serial numbers if it needs to be changed).

[GEOSoft]

MsgBox(0, "title", StringRegExpReplace("XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX", "[.?*]", "seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser"))

I have tryed \w, [X] (that wont replace the serial numbers if it needs to be changed).

Does the actual serial number contain only numbers or only alpha characters or a combination of both?

Edit: Your RegExp in the example is wrong anyway.

$sStr = StringRegExpReplace("XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX", "(.+)", "seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser")

Which is the same as using StringReplace()

Give us an actual example of what you want to do

Edited December 20, 2008 by GEOSoft

[PsaltyDS]

MsgBox(0, "title", StringRegExpReplace("XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX", "[.?*]", "seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser"))

I have tryed \w, [X] (that wont replace the serial numbers if it needs to be changed).

This RegExp pattern finds eight groups of four characters each, separated by dashes:

Global $sString = "This is my serial number: 1A2B-3333-4C5D-6666-7E8F-9999-0G1H-2222, " & _
        "there are many like it, but this one is mine."
Global $sSerial = "seri-lser-ials-eria-lser-ials-eria-lser"

ConsoleWrite($sString & @LF)
$sString = StringRegExpReplace($sString, "(\w{4}-){7}\w{4}", $sSerial)
ConsoleWrite($sString & @LF)

Edited December 20, 2008 by PsaltyDS

[gigilihooie]

Thankyou very much PsaltyDS. Works great.