WinTextFilePatch

• WinTextFilePatch100.zip - 82.7 KB

Introduction

Many times, I was involved in sorting my Opera (fantastic web browser, for whose don't knot it) cache, keeping in a safe place some HTML file, deleting some other useless. In the kept files, I often had to search for URL and retrieve the file associated. It was a huge task, even if Opera can nicely manage download. So I create HTML files with all the URL, then use a web grabber to retrieve them in background.

But the task to compile all files, look for all the URL, creating a single HTML still have to be done by hand. So I created this little tool to look for a specific pattern in a set of files and output multiple or an unique file with the URL. It was then too much easy to compile stuffs ;)

Features

The tool allows to fetch only the wanted part of text, to input the text one or multiple times in another text, include the unmatched text and so on, so you may do almost everything with this tool ;)

Using the tool

Imagine in a HTML file you have, between the mess and the ads, such links :

<span class="imagelink">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/01.jpg:
<br /><img src="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/01.jpg">
<br clear=all><BR><BR><BR>

<span class="imagelink">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/02.jpg:
<br /><img src="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/02.jpg">
<br clear=all><BR><BR><BR>

<span class="imagelink">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/03.jpg:
<br /><img src="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/03.jpg">
<br clear=all><BR><BR><BR>

<span class="imagelink">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/04.jpg:
<br /><img src="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/04.jpg">
<br clear=all><BR><BR><BR>
...

Now you wants to save them cleanely in the same file without the mess and the ads, or compile every URL you may find in a big file, in order to get this :

<a href="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki4/pics/1.jpg">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/1.jpg</a><br>

<a href="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/2.jpg">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/2.jpg</a><br>

<a href="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/3.jpg">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/3.jpg</a><br>

<a href="http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/4.jpg">
http://galleries.amberlace.com/ndnikki1/pics/4.jpg</a><br>
...

Here the explanation step-by-step, section-per-section :

File

Source : Source folder that contains the files. Currently no sub-directory support.

Extension : File extension to process, separated with a semi-column. If empty, process every file of the source folder.

Destination : Destination folder, where the modified files have to be written. If the path ends with a filename, things extracted will be written inside a unique file.

Text

Here comes the most interresting part, but be cautious :

Start : The beginning of the text to look for. In the previous example/pattern, it would be

<span class="imagelink">

Body : Name the body part you wan to keep safe and write in the destination file. Leave it to body if you want, it's not such important...

End : The end of the text that will encapsulate the body. From the previous example, it would be after the interresting URL, such

:<br /><img src=

Replace : Put here the replacement line including the retrieved body. To include the body, just write the body name with a percent sign before. Hence, to create a valid URL, write

<a href=\"%body\">%body</a><br>

Include unprocessed text : Include in the output file the text found before the start and after the end of what have to be processed. Hence you may just modify/clean a file ;)

Add end of line : Add an end-of-line after each match. Useful to create one line per URL.

Encapsulation

Header : Header of the new file.

Tail : Tail of the new file.

Process

!!! : Let's GO !

History

None yet ;)

Disclaimer

• First the tool IS NOT Unicode compliant. It just process single byte charset.
• Second, sorry for the morons who will be shocked by the links I gave as example. It's just cute ;)
• Third, this is provided as is. I'll make upgrades on purpose. But feel free to modify the tool for your own usage.
• Fourth, this tool is far more useful than you even expected. It lacks also of a configuration saving, in order to set back a parameter set to process another bunch of files.

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a great inexpensive tool that does this jrocnuck 12:04 9 Jan '05   Hey folks, I think it's great that this code was written for all the code project folks, but just a little tip (and I have no affiliation with this company whatsoever) for you... I use this tool called Search and Replace from Funduc. http://www.funduc.com. It is a superb search and replace in multiple files tool and it's like 30-40$. It does these special HTML search and replaces, it has regular expressions, it does search and replace in binary files, etc etc.. if nothing else check out the screen shots. I use this tool quite often and it really saves lots of time. Eric Nuckols jrocnuck (over at) hotmail Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Hmmm... Kochise 11:50 15 Jan '05   I coded this tool in 2 hours (several debugging included). I left it there especialy for my own purpose when I'm away from home. Anyway, thanks for the link Hayy new year though... Kochise In Code we trust ! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Regular Expressions??? Gilad Novik 22:37 22 Mar '04   Why not using regex (grep for example) to extract all relevant data and output it to a new file? (or even to replace it inplace). Regex has much power over simple text search. Whoa! The internet is even on computers now! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Yep, I now, I just needed something fast... Kochise 23:33 22 Mar '04   ...and the opportunity to make fun of it Look at the code ! I know a little about regexp, I would have used Notepad RE (often updated on CodeProject), but for various purposes, I needed a single GUI project which allows me to compile the files I needed But thanks for the tip for people having some interrest in the subject Kochise In Code we trust ! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink

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