12-05-2008
replacing text in a file, but...
Hi all,
Very first post on this forums, hope you can help me with this scripting task.
I have a big text file with over 3000 lines, some of those lines contain some text that I need to replace, lets say for simplicity the text to be replaced in those lines is "aaa" and I need it to replace it for something else...
but before you think of sed's substitution 's///' or python's s.replace() method or similar ways, the resulting text should NOT be the same for every occurrence of "aaa", that is, I need the replacements to be unique (this does not happens with the above functions as all of the occurrences are replaced with the same text.
For example, for the first occurrence of "aaa" replace it with "aaa1", the second "aaa2" and so forth. I doesn't necessarily have to be sequential it just has to be unique.
Any input is appreciated,
Thank you.
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dwtcstextreplace
DwtCSTextReplace(3Dwt) DwtCSTextReplace(3Dwt)
Name
DwtCSTextReplace - Replaces a portion of the current text in the compound-string text widget or inserts some new text into the current text
of the compound-string text widget.
Syntax
void DwtCSTextReplace(widget, from_pos, to_pos, value)
Widget widget;
int from_pos, to_pos;
DwtCompString value;
Arguments
widget Specifies the ID of the compound-string text widget.
from_pos Specifies the first character position of the compound-string text being replaced.
to_pos Specifies the last character position of the compound-string text being replaced.
value Specifies the text to replace part of the current text in the compound-string text widget.
Description
The DwtCSTextReplace function replaces part of the text in the compound-string text widget. Within the widget, positions are numbered
starting at 0 and increasing sequentially. For example, to replace the second and third characters in the text, from_pos should be 1 and
to_pos should be 3. To insert text after the fourth character, from_pos and to_pos should both be 4.
See Also
DwtCSText(3Dwt), DwtCSTextCreate(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetString(3Dwt), DwtCSTextGetEditable(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetEditable(3Dwt), DwtCS-
TextGetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetSelection(3Dwt), DwtCSTextGetSelection(3Dwt)
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DwtCSTextReplace(3Dwt)