I’ve decided to release phreplace as open source software in order to continue it’s development, I no longer have the time to give it the attention it deserves. The VB6 source code will be released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), in my understanding this means that anyone can use phreplace and even [...]
more...is a VB6 DLL which is called from a vbscript plugin for PSPad. The script tests to see if the correct version of the DLL is registered on this computer, if not it registers it using regsvr32. This works fine in XP but not Vista where the script will error. A while ago a user [...]
more...I’ve made a couple of updates to phreplace and created a new . The changes include: Handling an exception that occurs in the vbscript Regex object when using a badly formed regular expression (e.g. reader.(\w)+\(reader.GetOrdinal\(“(\w)+”)); – note I forgot to escape the last parenthesis). Added Write to Log option (which defaults to off) to write some debugging [...]
more...phreplace uses the vbscript regular expression engine, for more information on pattern matching, see the following Microsoft reference:
Microsoft Beefs Up VBScript with Regular Expressions
Note that the full stop (.) matches any character except \n. This means it also matches \r which can cause issues with Windows encoding which uses \r\n as the line break.
To use search matches in a replace term, surround the match you wish to use in parenthesis (brackets) and use $1, $2, $3 etc… in the replace term. e.g.
| Text: | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog |
| Search: | The quick brown (\w*) jumps over the lazy (\w*) |
| Replace: | The $1 $2 |
| Result: | The fox dog |
Use $& to match the entire search match.
Use $1, $2, etc. To match backreferences (parenthesis) in the search match.
Search: ^([^\n\r]+)$
Description: Matches a whole line.
