Find/Replace but Increment Value

Find/Replace but Increment Value

I have an .HTML file that has many photos attached to it for displaying a photo gallery. I'm replacing old photos with new ones, and I'm thinking there must be a more intelligent way than simply copying and pasting repetitive file names.

I would love to be able to replace and increment a file name on each replace, starting at a base file name of my choosing. For example...

...images/69thStreet010.jpg  ...images/69thStreet011.jpg  ...images/69thStreet012.jpg  

Basically performing a CTRL+F and REPLACE '69thStreet010.jpg' with...

...images/xyz001.jpg  ...images/xyz002.jpg  ...images/xyz003.jpg  

And so on until I want it to stop. Anyone here have any suggestions? Thanks a lot!

UPDATE: I should also add, I'm using Notepad++ to edit my files.

Answer by Frank Krueger for Find/Replace but Increment Value

It's time for you to learn scripting languages. Python/Ruby/Perl can do this in a few lines by using simple regular expressions and a directory listing.

Answer by Dykam for Find/Replace but Increment Value

If your S&R supports Regex, use this. Search term:

images/69thStreet([0-9]+).jpg  

Replace term:

images/xyz$1.jpg  

Answer by ryansstack for Find/Replace but Increment Value

There is. Create your list of photos using a python script that looks at whatever directory you want, and renames or just lists all the file names. Then go from that to a python script that generates the HTML you need (should be very easy at this point). Then copy & paste that.

Python is very easy to use, you will be able to download it in 5 minutes & find a tutorial for reading / changing file names in another 10 minutes.

Answer by Vasiliy Deych for Find/Replace but Increment Value

I just use Excel & Notepad++

Create a column of incrementing numbers in Excel. Then in the next (or previous) column, put in the line you wish to merge w/ the incrementing numbers. For instance:

file00  |  1  |  .jpg  file00  |  2  |  .jpg  

Etc.

Then copy/paste the thing into Notepad++ (or use Excel's CONCATENATE function if the job is simple) and do a replacement.

Answer by Dean Toader for Find/Replace but Increment Value

OK, I came up with a Notepad++ solution.
It does require you to install the Notepad++ plugin PythonScript. It is a TextPad-like incremental replace.

i.e.
Search and replace integer values within a string
replacing incrementally starting with 1 (0 is the default starting value):

In your case it would be
Search: ...images/69thStreet[0-9]+.jpg
Replace: ...images/xyz00\i(1).jpg

Install the PythonScript plugin.
Save the code below as a PythonScript and associate a shortcut (i.e. Ctrl+i) to it:
Then open your html file in Notepad++ and run the script below on your html file.
When prompted by the search replace dialogue, enter the following 2 lines:
...images/69thStreet[0-9]+.jpg
...images/xyz00\i(1).jpg

Now, all instances of
...images/69thStreet010.jpg
...images/69thStreet011.jpg
...images/69thStreet012.jpg

will become
...images/xyz001.jpg
...images/xyz002.jpg
...images/xyz003.jpg

Here is the PythonScript code

from Npp import *  import re, string    # First we'll start an undo action, then Ctrl-Z will undo the actions of the whole script  editor.beginUndoAction()    expression     = notepad.prompt("Enter the search string on the first line, followed by Ctrl+Enter, \n" +                                  "followed by the replace string on second line",                                  "Incremental Search/Replace" ,                                  "")    expressionList = re.split(r"[\n\r]+", expression)    if len(expressionList) == 2:      foundCount = [0]        def incrementalReplace(parmReplaceStr,parmFoundCount):          varPatternI  = r'\\i\((?P[0-9]+)\)'          varPatternIi = r'\\i'          varPatternISearch = re.search(varPatternI , parmReplaceStr)            if varPatternISearch != None:              varFoundCount    = int(varPatternISearch.group('starting')) + parmFoundCount[0]              varReplaceString = re.sub(varPatternI ,str(varFoundCount    ),parmReplaceStr)          elif re.search(varPatternIi, parmReplaceStr) != None:              varReplaceString = re.sub(varPatternIi,str(parmFoundCount[0]),parmReplaceStr)            parmFoundCount[0] = parmFoundCount[0] + 1              return varReplaceString        # Do a Python regular expression replace      editor.searchAnchor()      while editor.searchNext(0x00200000,expressionList[0]) != -1:          editor.replaceSel(incrementalReplace(expressionList[1],foundCount))          editor.lineDown()           editor.searchAnchor()        # End the undo action, so Ctrl-Z will undo the above two actions      editor.endUndoAction()  

Answer by Dillie-O for Find/Replace but Increment Value

Look into the Column Editor feature within Notepad++. You can do a block select on the area you want to increment and then give it a starting/ending range and you're all set.

I was in a similar situation recently. I did a little bit of regular expression search/replace to get my filenames into my "default" format with some padded "000" where I wanted my incrementing to start. After that I used Shift+ALT to block select the 000s and used the editor to do the rest of the work.

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