Snippet for Generic Search & Replace

[luckyearl]

Hi
I see another extension here “Remove Vertical Line(s) - #2 by nick”, which is very similar

Can v make a generic extension with the option to search & replace

Concept snippet, tho JS needs to be looked at. Cheers

# popclip
name: SearchNreplace
icon: Search filled dot
options:
  - identifier: Search
  label: Search Name
  type: string
options:
  - identifier: Replace
  label: Replace Name
  type: string
javascript: |
  const SearchName = encodeURIComponent(popclip.options.Search)
  const ReplaceName = encodeURIComponent(popclip.options.Replace)
  popclip.pasteText(popclip.input.text.replace(/\{SearchName}/g, ‘{ReplaceName}'))
description: Searches and replaces string

[nick]

Concept snippet

And it’s a great concept @luckyearl - welcome to the forum.

Here I have knocked it into some kind of shape:

# popclip
name: SearchNreplace
icon: Search filled X
macos version: '10.15' # for String.replaceAll
options:
- { identifier: Search, label: Search Name, type: string }
- { identifier: Replace, label: Replace Name, type: string }
javascript: popclip.pasteText(popclip.input.text.replaceAll(popclip.options.Search, popclip.options.Replace))
description: Searches and replaces string

[luckyearl]

Thank you Nick for looking at it. works great

[epoxzk]

Whether this replaced fragment can be multiple, separated by “,”

[nick]

Challenge accepted, welcome to the forum @epoxzk !

# popclip
name: SearchNreplacePRO
icon: Search filled X!
macos version: '10.15' # for String.replaceAll
description: Searches and replaces multiple terms
options:
- { identifier: Search, label: Search terms, type: string, description: Comma separated. }
- { identifier: Replace, label: Replacements, type: string, description: Comma separated. }
javascript: |
  const search = popclip.options.Search.split(',')
  const replace = popclip.options.Replace.split(',')
  if (search.length !== replace.length) throw new Error('Unequal number of terms')
  const zipped = search.map((k, i) => [k, replace[i]])
  let text = popclip.input.text
  for (const [s, r] of zipped) {
    text = text.replaceAll(s, r)
  }
  popclip.pasteText(text)

[luckyearl]

Great, the idea seems to developing

But how do you search & replace “,”

[nick]

@luckyearl

But how do you search & replace “,”

Change the separator

[luckyearl]

Also cud further develop it as search & replace a string rather than a character
Cheers

[luckyearl]

That’s perfect, its so easy to create a new extension, genius

[nick]

@luckyearl

Also cud further develop it as search & replace a string rather than a character

That already works, you can put strings in betwee the commas. My example just happened to be single characters.

You can also set the replacement to nothing to delete the things. e.g. one,,three will delete ‘is’ and replace this and fine.

[luckyearl]

Tx Nick, I shud have tried.
Have a gud day

[nello]

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[nello]

@nick

name: SearchNreplace

I love this extension but have one question: is it possible to specify a new line character as part of the replacement string?

[nick]

I don’t think so, since the text field is a single-line field so you can’t put an enter character in.

[nello]

So there’s no escape sequence, e.g., ‘/r’ or ‘/n’?