Scite regexp replace text between newlines

[frank10]

I tested this regExp here:

(_Debug\([a-zA-Z"'. ]*,).*\nConsolewrite\((.*)\)

https://regex101.com/r/MGSaPJ/9

 

but it doesn't work in Scite, for the CRLF... (I tried to set also the posix option)

How should I change it?

 

I want to select a Consolewrite after a "_Debug(....)" on the previous line and then I would like to make some changes like i.e.:

_Debug("","",1)
Consolewrite("-----Launch----")

to

_Debug("", "-----Launch----",1)

with 
Replace \1 \2 ,1)

 

 

[Jos]

Assume you mean AutoIt3, not SciTE, or  are you using the Replace function in SciTE with the REGEX box ticked?

Jos

Edited March 15, 2019 by Jos

[Dionysis]

The expression must be a string, so you have to enclose it in single or double quote-marks and escape the ones in the regexp.

Something like

"(_Debug\([a-zA-Z""'. ]*,).*\nConsolewrite\((.*)\)"

or

'(_Debug\([a-zA-Z"''. ]*,).*\nConsolewrite\((.*)\)'

 

[frank10]

No, I'm really speaking of Scite in its replace box with the regExp box checked.

[Jos]

Did you see this option which switches the () logic:

Quote

find.replace.regexp.posix

Change behaviour of Regular expression search. If set to 0 (the default), characters '(' and ')' must be escaped by '\' to behave as regexp meta characters. If set to 1, these characters are meta characters itself.

Jos

[frank10]

Yes I tried on the Global Options with no results.

[Jos]

Ok, so please tell us:

• What is the ext in the editor you want to change?
• What does it need to change to?
• What did you type in the 2 fields of the replace window?

So we can have a play.

Jos

[frank10]

Text is:

_Debug("","",1)
Consolewrite("-----Launch----")

My simplified Find box is:

_Debug[ )(0-9a-zA-Z."' ,]*\nConsolewrite

and I get no text Found.

The problem is the \n that Scite doesn't see... infact if I do:

_Debug[ )(0-9a-zA-Z."' ,]*

it gets the _Debug("","",1)

After we solve the CRLF findings we can pass over to the Replace groups...

Edited March 16, 2019 by frank10

[Jos]

It look like \r\n isn't supported: https://www.scintilla.org/SciTERegEx.html

Quote

[3] \

matches the character following it, except:

• \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v match the corresponding C escape char, respectively BEL, BS, FF, LF, CR, TAB and VT;
  Note that \r and \n are never matched because in Scintilla, regular expression searches are made line per line (stripped of end-of-line chars).

Jos

[frank10]

Yes, bad thing.... very limiting for a programming editor.

[Jos]

Yes...  I would complain on their site if I were you.

Jos

[mLipok]

 

28 minutes ago, frank10 said:

Yes, bad thing.... very limiting for a programming editor.

I use grepWin

https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html

 

[frank10]

Thank you, I solved using Notepad++ with this:

_Debug([)(\-<>$:;!@_#a-zA-Z0-9."' ]*,)[)\-<>$:;!@_#a-zA-Z0-9&,."' ]*\r\nConsolewrite\(([\[\-<>$:;!@_&#a-zA-Z0-9."' ]*)

and Replace with:
_Debug($1$2,1)

I'll also look at your suggestion.