milanese » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:41 pm wrote:better something like the crap editor self or, Notepad++, because word can cause problems in the encoding..

Cheers

Tommaso

Jemook » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:35 pm wrote:For the time being maybe put your code into Microsoft Word or Notepad and use it's find and replace feature?

Cheers
Jeremy


Notepad++ worked fine for me. Pain to have to do the extra work, but is the more simple of solutions.

Pips to all.

AnotherBrian » Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:13 am wrote:So now we have to replace all out "." dots in the variables to something else, or delete them.

This is going to be time consuming and prone to errors, opening files in the editor and using find replace.I've done two EA's and an include and what a pain in the ass.
A script would sure help move this along, even if it catches 80% of the fixes.

What we could really use is a script that will find and replace "." with "_"
It needs to look for a letter before and after the "." before it changes the "." to a "_"

I suggest a vbscript that can be run from the command line with the target filename. Any other ideas? Maybe a script run within scite? VB would be more universal.

Here is a start from a Google search. This script is not smart enough and will change all "." to "_". We need to add smarts but I don't get this VB stuff. This can even take care of the search string and the replace string, inside the code.

Any takers on a little code help? In the code below, add a filter to check the text has a letter before and after the "." before replacing. I have no idea how this would search for text, if it not taking word by word then the code below is a non-starter.

To use the script (call it replace.vbs), type a command similar to this from the command prompt:
cscript replace.vbs "C:\Scripts\Text.txt" ". " "_ "

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Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

strFileName = Wscript.Arguments(0)
strOldText = Wscript.Arguments(1)
strNewText = Wscript.Arguments(2)

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFileName, ForReading)

strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
strNewText = Replace(strText, strOldText, strNewText)

Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFileName, ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine strNewText
objFile.Close

kwanann » Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:53 pm wrote:hmm so any "new" downloads of Empty4 will give me version 600?

Jemook » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:35 pm wrote:For the time being maybe put your code into Notepad and use it's find and replace feature?

Cheers
Jeremy

AnotherBrian » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:21 am wrote:It will be painful to change all the EA's out there that use a variable such as Daily.Slope It will need to be changed to Daily_Slope or it can't be compiled in the new build.

SlipShods Sup/Res indicator has a whole bunch of these. No big deal I guess - as long as an great indi like Slipshots gets fixed and posted. There are lots of others out there.

milanese » Yesterday, 23:41 wrote:better something like the crap editor self or, Notepad++, because word can cause problems in the encoding..

Cheers

Tommaso

AnotherBrian » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:13 pm wrote:So now we have to replace all out "." dots in the variables to something else, or delete them.

This is going to be time consuming and prone to errors, opening files in the editor and using find replace.I've done two EA's and an include and what a pain in the ass.

meska » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:17 pm wrote:My favorite tool for this kind of tasks is Powergrep: it can search and replace on whole folders and subfolders using regular expressions. there is a 15 day trial on their website.

try search for this: ([\w\d]+)\.([\d\w]+)
and replace with this: \1_\2

AnotherBrian » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:13 pm wrote:So now we have to replace all out "." dots in the variables to something else, or delete them.

This is going to be time consuming and prone to errors, opening files in the editor and using find replace.I've done two EA's and an include and what a pain in the ass.