Page 1 of 2
Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:09 am
by richmond62
This is carried over from the Use-List . . .
I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the parentheses) with a single space. I have tried assembling the matchExpression in advance and in line, and also escaping the parentheses just in case they are reserved in regex. Or do I need to enclose the matchExpression in something other than or in addition to, quotes?
I did things another way:
Code: Select all
on mouseUp
put empty into fld "f2"
put fld "fff" into FLUFFY
put 0 into CHEK
repeat until FLUFFY is empty
put char 1 of FLUFFY into FUR
delete char 1 of FLUFFY
switch FUR
case "("
put 1 into CHEK
break
case ")"
put 0 into CHEK
break
default
if CHEK < 1 then
put FUR after fld "f2"
else
--- do nix
end if
end switch
end repeat
end mouseUp
-
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:10 am
by richmond62
Um: forgot to put a SPACE in, just deleted everything . . .
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:52 pm
by jsburnett
I tried replaceText but could not get that to work.
Try this.
"on mouseUp
put field 1 into tText
repeat with x = the number of chars of tText down to 0
if char x of tText is "(" or char x of tText is ")"
then
delete char x of tText
end if
end repeat
put tText
end mouseUp:
Field 1 is the starting text.
John Burnett
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 6:09 pm
by jmburnod
Hi Richmond,
Thanks for sharing]
DeParenthesizer works fine here
Best
Jean-Marc
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:47 pm
by bogs
Um, jsburnett, that will certainly take out parenthesis, but that was only part of the equation posted.
first post wrote:
I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the parentheses) with a single space.
I'm pretty sure you could do this easily with offset (character level to find the parenthesis and set up a marker for each) and replaceText (marker 1 to marker 2) in a fairly small repeat loop.
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:12 pm
by jsburnett
O. Oops
How about “offset”.
Use offset to find the “(“ the. “)” chars.
Then delete the chars in between.
Repeat this till no pairs remain.
Just an idea off the top of my head.
Or use the other script and keep deleting till the “)” is ‘found’
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:17 pm
by bogs
jsburnett wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:12 pm
How about “offset”.
Use offset to find the “(“ the. “)” chars.
Then delete the chars in between.
Hee hee, I thought I said that
This also apparently works ok...
Code: Select all
on mouseUp
put "" into field 2
put field 1 into theSource
repeat with x=1 to the number of characters of theSource
wait 5 ticks with messages
if character x of theSource is not "(" then
put character x of theSource after field 2
else
put offset(")",theSource) into blipMe
replace character x to blipMe of theSource with " " in theSource
next repeat
end if
end repeat
end mouseUp
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:49 pm
by jsburnett
Ok, I may not be seeing the entire thread.
out
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:22 am
by AxWald
Hi,
Code: Select all
on mouseUp
get fld "f1_fld"
put false into mySkip
repeat for each char C in it
if C = "(" then
put true into mySkip
put space after myRes -- the "single space"
else if C = ")" then
put false into mySkip
else if not mySkip then
put C after myRes
end if
end repeat
replace " " with " " in myRes -- optional, restores it to a nice text
put myRes into fld "f2_fld"
end mouseUp
;-)
Have fun!
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:21 pm
by dunbarx
So why does this not work:
Code: Select all
filter textWithParens without "(*)"
Craig
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:36 pm
by stam
Or just use regex.
There was a discussion. It so long ago here:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35679
The discussion was on how to find text between 2 delimiters. Regex works very well for this and is less code…
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:19 pm
by richmond62
Why does
regex get on my nerves?
Possibly because I have a "thing" about doing everything inwith LiveCode as such.
Or, just possibly because it does NOT look like LiveCode, but much more like the type of computer languages I almost
completely turned my back on in 1993 (When I discovered HyperCard):
-
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:00 pm
by jacque
Code: Select all
put replacetext(fld 1,"\(.*?\)",space) into tNewText
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:25 pm
by bogs
I dunno why regex gets on your nerves Richmond, it is no more or less than a few plain english symbols and the command as Jacque put it is certainly shorter than anything else that popped in so far. Orders of magnitude faster as well I wager.
I keep meaning to get around to parsing it, but usually in the time it would take me to doing that, I've already figured out a (short enough) brute force method
Re: Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:26 pm
by richmond62
Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
OK: pause for 'evil' Richmond question:
Is that to be interpreted that EACH character between parentheses MUST be REPLACED with a SPACE?
(= as many SPACES as their are characters between parentheses.)
Or
that ALL characters between parentheses MUST be REPLACED with a SPACE?
(=1 SPACE regardless of length of string between parentheses.)