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January 13th, 2010, 01:15 PM

ihussain

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Find & Replace

Hi,
I've more than 558 fields to update with diffrent names & id's.
for eg:

Code:

<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSL" id="ShoulderFlexSL" tabindex="10" size="8" maxlength="50" >
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSR" id="ShoulderFlexSR" tabindex="20" size="8" maxlength="50" >
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRML" id="ShoulderFlexRML" tabindex="30" size="8" maxlength="50" >
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRMR" id="ShoulderFlexRMR" tabindex="40" size="8" maxlength="50" >
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSL" id="ShoulderFlexSL" tabindex="10" size="8" maxlength="50" >

I am wondering is there a way I can use FIND & REPLACE -offcourse with some regex to accomplish this task & add another value attribute in those inputs with same name & id attributes value.

<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSL" id="ShoulderFlexSL" tabindex="10" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexSL#">
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSR" id="ShoulderFlexSR" tabindex="20" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexSR#">
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRML" id="ShoulderFlexRML" tabindex="30" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexRML#">
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRMR" id="ShoulderFlexRMR" tabindex="40" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexRMR#">

Any comments would be deeply appreciated.

January 13th, 2010, 11:56 PM

shivercube

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Well you could use a regular expression such as:

Code:

Find: (<cfinput.+?name="([a-z]+)".+?id="\2".+?)(?=>)
Replace: $1value="#$2#">

You could either create a small script, or do it in an advanced text editor. Since I currently have my PHP IDE open, I did it in PHP as an example.

PHP Code:


		
			
 $string = '<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSL" id="ShoulderFlexSL" tabindex="10" size="8" maxlength="50" >

<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSR" id="ShoulderFlexSR" tabindex="20" size="8" maxlength="50" >

<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRML" id="ShoulderFlexRML" tabindex="30" size="8" maxlength="50" >

<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRMR" id="ShoulderFlexRMR" tabindex="40" size="8" maxlength="50" >

<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSL" id="ShoulderFlexSL" tabindex="10" size="8" maxlength="50" >';



echo '<pre>',

    htmlentities(preg_replace('/(<cfinput.+?name="([a-z]+)".+?id="\2".+?)(?=>)/i', '$1value="#$2#"', $string)),

    '</pre>';

Produces:

Code:

<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSL" id="ShoulderFlexSL" tabindex="10" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexSL#">
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSR" id="ShoulderFlexSR" tabindex="20" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexSR#">
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRML" id="ShoulderFlexRML" tabindex="30" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexRML#">
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexRMR" id="ShoulderFlexRMR" tabindex="40" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexRMR#">
<cfinput type="text" name="ShoulderFlexSL" id="ShoulderFlexSL" tabindex="10" size="8" maxlength="50" value="#ShoulderFlexSL#">

January 14th, 2010, 08:22 AM

ihussain

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shivercube,
you are one smart fellow

I do appreciate your help & again can't thx ya enough for that..

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