I am trying to develop an API using PHP, Which will receive Text from user as Input.
I need to change text inside the aepx file. On my research I found <string> tag and <ldata> contains text value and corresponding its hexadecimal value respectively.
I am able to parse and replace text of <string> tags in aepx.
I am also able to change the hexadecimal values of bdata attribute of <ldata>.
But after all the changes I have made, it is not rendering(tried to run using aerender command). Also After Effect Application(latest -cc 2018) is crashing while opening changed aepx file.
Example:
Original
<ldta bdata="0000000c00020000000000010000000000005da80000000000005da8000afc8000005da80000008700 0000000000000000000000000000000000000100010000506c616365686f6c6465722074657874000000000000 000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000 0300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"/>
<string>Placeholder text</string>
After Change
<ldta bdata="0000000c00020000000000010000000000005da80000000000005da8000afc8000005da80000008700 000000000000000000000000000000000000010001000048656C6C6F20576F726C642100000000000000000000 000000000000000000020000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000003000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"/>
<string>Hello World!</string>
You can do this using After Effects Expressions. Following are the steps which worked for me:
Open the project in AfterEffects
Go to Text layer you wish to modify
Click arrow icon which shows a sub section with a stopwatch icon and the text "Source Text"
ALT + click the stopwatch icon, you will see another section underneath it with text "Expression Source Text"
Give its value as "thisLayer.name"
Click File > Save as > Save as xml
This will create you a aepx file.
Open aepx file in any text editor and search for the text you wish to modify. Confirm that it looks like in the attached sample aepx image. The following is the expression line "thisLayer.name" that we created through AfterEffects in above steps.
Now change the text "This is the text to be changed" to whatever you wish,
Render and check. If all ok then it must be changed.
Attached images:
After Effects steps to setup expression
Sample aepx glimpse.
Consider: Placeholder text has 16 characters (since also counting the space char).
Make sure your new input text is same length as Placeholder text length in total characters (you can use spaces to increase length, where needed for shorter text).
The easiest fix is to:
Make Placeholder text have max expected length, (example: 30 chars), so in AE you create a textfield and press space 30 times (or make 10 spaces then copy these 10 blank chars and re-paste them another 2 times).
Your PHP API should check the input text length and if below 30 chars, fill remainder with space " " maybe using a For loop. If input is above the 30 limit, then trim down to first 30 chars and ignore the rest.
The final string should be same length as the text-field you made in A.E. Your API can now safely place the final text into your AEPX file.
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Been trying to get this one done for some time and couldn't find a solution.
The annoying issue I got is that when I open my x.txt notepad file everything is in line, organized, well arranged however when I do open it with notepad++ everything gets messed up. Here is a quick example (left notepad++/right notepad, same file) http://prntscr.com/9ypxcm
Some of the files get the same view format and style in both notepad and notepad++ (probably they were created originally in notepad++?) however some of my other text documents get really messed into notepad++ and I just hate simple windows notepad when it comes to text editing.
Would appreciate some help. Thank you
I just checked for How much spaces does a tab takes in both ?.
Notepad++ takes 4 spaces to constitute 1 tab.
Windows Notepad takes 6 spaces to constitute 1 tab.
Therefore when a file which is first edited in Windows Notepad ( 6 spaces-tab ) is opened in Notepad++, the tab is converted to 4 spaces reducing 2 spaces. That's why everything gets messed up
Solution
1) This is same file opened in two editors.
2) Now go as directed
Settings --> Preferences --> Tab Settings --> normal.
Uncheck the Use default value.
Click on Tab size. A small input box will appear.Input 6 as value and press Enter.
3) The tabs are now properly formatted.
I have a text file as:
0xC1,0x80,
0x63,0x00,
0x3F,0x80,
0x01,0xA0,
I want output as:
Line1: 0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01,
Line2: 0x80,0x00,0x80,0xA0,
How to do this using replace function in Notepad++?
You can use the below shortcuts to do the transpose in Notepad ++
Step 1: Ctrl + A: selects all.
Step 2: Ctrl + J: Transpose the Row you selected
Use the box select feature to select the second column text.
Use Alt+Shift+Arraw keys to select the second column.
Copy the selected text to a new file.
Use Find/Replace to remove all the newline characters.
Ctrl+F to open find/replace dialog box.
Select either Extended or Regular Expression Serach mode.
Type \r\n in Find What box.
Keep the Replace with box blank.
Click on Replace All in ALL Open Documents.
Now, the text is brought in single line.
Copy the text from second file and paste it to second line of first file.
Cheers...
There is no built-in function in Notepad++ for transposing a matrix and you can't do it using Replace (as M42 pointed out). Also, I'm not aware of any related plugin. So you will either need a different editor or do it with a script. The simplest solution I guess using a Spreadsheet, eg Excel or OpenOffice, both of them allow you to easily transpose a table.
But, there's still a good alternative without leaving Notepad++. Is to use the Python Script plugin.
Setup Python Script plugin
Install Python Script plugin, from Plugin Manager or from the official website.
When installed, go to Plugins > Python Script > New Script. Choose a filename for your new script (eg transpose.py) and copy the first code block that follows and copy the second one to another script, called for example transpose_uneven.py.
Open your data file and then run Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > transpose.py. This will open a new tab with your data transposed.
transpose.py
delimiter=","
newline="\n"
content=editor.getText()
matrix=[line.split(delimiter) for line in content.rstrip(newline).split(newline)]
transposed=list(map(list, zip(*matrix)))
notepad.new()
for line in transposed:
editor.addText(delimiter.join(line) + newline)
if len(transposed)!=len(matrix[0]):
console.clear()
console.show()
console.write("Warning: some rows are of uneven length. You might consider using the transpose_uneven script instead.")
transpose_uneven.py
import itertools
delimiter=","
newline="\n"
content=editor.getText()
matrix=[line.split(delimiter) for line in content.rstrip(newline).split(newline)]
transposed=list(map(list, itertools.izip_longest(*matrix, fillvalue="")))
notepad.new()
for line in transposed:
editor.addText(delimiter.join(line) + newline)
Examples
The transpose.py script will transpose the following example:
0xC1,0x80,
0x63,0x00,
0x3F,0x80,
0x01,0xA0,
To:
0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01
0x80,0x00,0x80,0xA0
,,,
If some of your rows are uneven:
0xC1,0x80,
0x63,0x00,
0x3F,0x80,
0x01,0xA0,
0x02
The uneven columns will be discarded accordingly:
0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01,0x02
If this is not desired, use transposed_uneven.py and it will return:
0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01,0x02
0x80,0x00,0x80,0xA0,
,,,,
If you really have such a fixed format and need such a fixed output i normally try it with an instant macro.
So my cursor is in the top left corner of the file ready to manipulate and i press the record button (or within the menu bar Macro - Start recording).
In you specific case now press:
End
Del
Pos1
↓
End hit the stop button (or within the menu bar Macro - Stop recording).
Now for a first test hit the playback button (or within the menu bar Macro - Playback) and test if it works. If yes click on Macro - Run a macro multiple times and select Run until the end of file.
I have a file containing (hundreds) of blocks of numbers like below;
This one is fine (16x20, correct number of rows and columns)
11111111111111111110
16666616666666661110
16111616111111162610
16111646111663132610
16162616261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261626132610
16166313661116632610
16111111111116132610
16666666666666136610
11111111111111111110
This one needs to be padded with trailing zeroes so it is (16x20)
111111111111111111
166616666666663661
166611111111111661
166666366663661661
113161111111161611
1316166666616161
1616162262616161
11616166112616161
16616166116616161
16616162262616161
16616166266616161
16616111161116161
1661666666666616111
1661666166163366661
1641666166166613661
1111111111111111111
I would like to pad them with zeroes so they are all like the first example. I'm aware of the regular expressions feature in notepad++ but am struggling to get it to work. I appreciate any help given.
You could do it via a macro.
First append a large number of zeroes to the end of each line using a macro.
Caret on the first entry
click record macro
press end
type out 20 zeroes
press down arrow
click stop recording
play the macro until all lines look like this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...
Caret on first line
click record
press home key
press the right arrow key 20 times
hold shift and press end key
press delete key
press down arrow
click stop recording
play the macro until all lines are processed
You could save the entire process as a single macro so its just a single click in the future.
I can give you a macro solution
go to the beginning of your text
select Macro/Start Recording
press end, press 0 16 times then press Home and down arrow key
select Macro/End Recording
You now have a macro to add sixteen zeros to the end of all lines.
Playback this macro on all lines.
You now have appended zeroes to all lines.
Pressing Alt key and using mouse select the required block(columns) of text you want and paste it into another empty notepad tab
help on column mode editing is there inside notepad ? / help contents menu
Good luck
You can use the plugin ConyEdit to do this.
With ConyEdit running in the background, follow these steps:
use the command line cc.aal 00000000000000000000 to append after lines with twenty zero character.
use the command line cc.gc 1/\d{20}/ to get the first column of regex match.
Looking to do this manualy and not progomaticly ?
Open Findreplace
Copy from the last to rhe first WITHOUT NUMBERS on a line so...
in this example
111111111111111111 <---from here
to here ---> 166616666666663661
166611111111111661
paste that into the fine ( yes your effecticly copying the return wich some applications allow you to manualy input others wont )
then in the replace box, type '0' then your return
Hit that magic replace all :D
This will then add a 0 every time it hits a new line, then add a new... new line....
edit : quickly reviewing another method a second to recover for alternate options :P give me 10
edit 2:
Ah ok somthing like this will work :P just tested it.
use [0-9] in the find replace. so if im looking for 123123123123 ( wich is 12 long ) and i need to buff i up to 20,
Your FIND must be in ()
so..
the find would be
([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] )
and the replace is referd to as \1 no the regex, this was my mistake
\100000000
tested and confirmed !dont forget YOU NEED MATCH ALL on, WRAP off!
And so on for your other numbers, Not sure if you can loop this with macros nd stuff :P but hope it helps more than you have now
two good resources.
http://blog.creativeitp.com/posts-and-articles/editors/understanding-regex-with-notepad/comment-page-1/
http://regexpal.com/
base on OP's comment: you could try an editor called vim/gvim
open your file in vim, then type:
:%s/.*/\=printf("%-20s",getline("."))/|%s/ *$/\=substitute(submatch(0)," ","0","g")/
don't forget pressing <Enter> after the above typing.
then you will see the text has been changed into what you want.
of course vim macro can work as well, however, I feel command better... :)
Basically, I want LibreOffice Calc to do what I tell it, not what it wants.
For example:
when I input 1.1.12, I want to have 1.1.12 in that cell, not 01.01.2012 or whatever.
when I input 001, I want to have 001 in that cell, not 1
and so on and so forth
I want it to never ever touch my data until I explicitly tell it to. Is that possible at all?
I know I can set format of a cell to text. It doesn't help at all. Example:
Input 1.1.12, it gets displayed as 01.01.12, format as text, it becomes "40909", original input is lost
Format empty cells as text. Paste "000 001 002 ..." separated by line breaks. Displays "0 1 2 ..."
I know I can write ' in front of anything for it to be forced text. Again it doesn't help, because when I paste in text, I cannot have ' auto-appended to it.
I hope this is possible. I tried googling for different problems and never found a good answer.
If you want your input to be interpreted as text and preventing Calc to do fancy (and annoying) things with your input, you have to change the format before entering any value.
Select the cells/columns/rows.
Right-click 'Format Cells...'
Select the tab 'Numbers'
In the list 'Category', select 'Text' (the last option)
Select the format '#' (it is the only one in this category)
Click on 'Ok'
You may need to tweak the 'autocorrect' options as well. Go to 'Tools > Auotcorrect Options...'. Here is a link that may help: https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Deactivating_Automatic_Changes
I understand your problem with pasting pure unformatted text. This may be more work than you like (we can try to automate that later) but when I paste data from Notepad, I am prompted with an import screen as you can see below. Select the column header(s) and then select Column type: Text. This should solve your paste/import problem. An alternative is to handle this with an AutoHotKey script.
Oh b.t.w. the # is the format type for text, just like you have HH for 24 hour or ddd for weekdays...
When you are importing, you're given a bunch of options. Select "Quoted field as text" so any text inside quotes is treated as text which is interpreted by LibreOffice as sacred and they do not modify it in the way they they modify something that they identify as number
When you have your data in the clipboard click Edit -> Paste as... in main menu. In next window choose "Paste as text". All your data will be pasted as is.
I initially arrived at this page with a very similar (but not identical) problem. I am posting the solution here for the benefit of those who might be visiting with the same issue.
Every time I would save, close, and then re-open my .XSLX spreadsheet in OpenOffice, it would delete the spaces I had entered in between text. For example:
"Did not attend" would become "Didnotattend".
"John DOE" would become "JohnDOE", etc.
Specifying "text" (#) as the format (as recommended above) did not help me, unfortunately.
What ultimately did solve it was saving it as an .ODS file instead of .XSLX .
just simply put character ' before the text, '0.1.16 and calc will interprate it as text data
My issue was currency, properly formatted would change to a much larger number if the numbers entered could represent a date; such as 4.22 becoming $42,482. I discovered that adding a trailing zero solved the problem.
I had pasted numbers from another site and it kept coming up with dates. I just messed around and hit the arrow that's on the paste board to give me the option of unformatted text or HTML format. I selected unformatted, a window opened to show me the text I wanted so I pressed o.k.
I have a list/grid in an MFC (c++) application. I would like the user to be able to copy and paste the data into a spreadsheet.
I've placed the data in the clipboard and the text makes it to the clipboard ok and I can paste it to notepad or Word or Excel, but Excel does not interpret the comma separated value-ness of my clipboard content - so it just goes into one cell/one column - rather than doing what I had hoped.
I hope there is something simple I am missing.
Any suggestions to get this to work?
I am not quite ready to make this a drag/drop source (which is in the task list)
EDIT:
I have it working - commas can't be used - must be tab separators
But now there is a new problem:
The issue now is that if I paste to excel using '\n' as line separator it looks good in excel but not in notepad.
If I make it "\r\n" then notepad looks correct but excel then has blank lines.
Any suggestions on how to make both consistent?
I used this question and tabs seem to work - but csv still does not
How to paste CSV data to Windows Clipboard with C#
Well, here's my two cents..
It seems a tab character in an NSString, such as #"123\t456" would tell Numbers and OpenOffice spreadsheets, that 456 goes into the next cell of the same row.
Likewise, a newline character \n, or a carriage return \r, would put follow-up data on a new row, for example #"123\n456" or #"123\r456" would put 456 in the next row (starting with the first column from the left).
Indeed, TextEdit does not interpret the newline (\n) or carriage return (\r). (OpenOffice text documents do.)
However, providing the pasteboard with an array of strings (be it NSStringPBoardType, or NSRTFPBoardType, or whatever), puts the different strings on seperate rows, both in a spreadsheet and in TextEdit.
Also, a tab (\t) shows up as a tab in TextEdit, which you can then manipulate in the toolbar, to get a nice layout of your data.