find and replace function

[paldo]

I have a few documents with lots of text that I have to replace.

For example I have to replace:

<div id="answer1" style="visibility:hidden; color:brown" >
<div id="answer2" style="visibility:hidden; color:brown" >
<div id="answer3" style="visibility:hidden; color:brown" >
...............................................................................
<div id="answer154" style="visibility:hidden; color:brown" >

That means that I have to replace 154 pieces of text that are almost similar, with

<div class="A">A:<div>

Is there a way to automate this process?
I'm using OS 10.7 and dreamweaver CS5.5

I appreciate your help

[benwiggy]

You don't need to AppleScript, you can just use a regular expression in the DreamWeaver Find and Replace dialog.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamwea...s_pt2.edu.html

[acme.mail.order]

And the expression you want is:

Find:
<div id="answer[0-9]*" style="visibility:hidden; color:brown" >

Replace:
<div class="A">

Or a better html option (and simpler replacement):

style="visibility:hidden; color:brown"

class="answer"

this way you keep the ID.

[benwiggy]

Quote: Originally Posted by acme.mail.order Or a better html option (and simpler replacement): style="visibility:hidden; color:brown" class="answer"

Though this will affect other tags with those attributes, which may cause problems.

[paldo]

Quote: Originally Posted by acme.mail.order And the expression you want is: Find: <div id="answer[0-9]*" style="visibility:hidden; color:brown" > Replace: <div class="A">

Great, it works ! Thank you so much.

As I also have 154 questions
I then tried to replace the following:

<div id="question1" onclick="Answer('question1','answer1','red','green');" style="color:blue" >
<div id="question2" onclick="Answer('question2','answer2','red','green');" style="color:blue" >
<div id="question3" onclick="Answer('question3','answer3','red','green');" style="color:blue" >
.....................until question 154

with:

Find:

<div id="question[0-9]*" onclick="Answer('question[0-9]*','answer[0-9]*','red','green');" style="color:blue" >

but no way to make it work, it doesn't find . Why?

[paldo]

After a long internet search I got it:

<div(.*)blue" >

Thank you, you made my day.

[fracai]

It probably didn't match because the parentheses were being treated as groups, rather than plain characters. Similarily, your solution probably doesn't need the parens as you aren't doing anything with what is matched by the .*

You can capture matched text and then insert it in the replacement using parens to group the capture during the match and backreference characters in the replacement ($1, $2 or \1, \2 depending on the implementation).

[paldo]

Quote: Originally Posted by fracai Similarily, your solution probably doesn't need the parens as you aren't doing anything with what is matched by the .*

It works with parenthasis but I will keep in mind your advise for next time. Thank you.

[acme.mail.order]

Quote: Originally Posted by paldo <div id="question1" onclick="Answer('question1','answer1','red','green');" style="color:blue" > <div id="question2" onclick="Answer('question2','answer2','red','green');" style="color:blue" > <div id="question3" onclick="Answer('question3','answer3','red','green');" style="color:blue" > .....................until question 154

That's just..... nasty.

How about:
HTML:

<div id="question2" class="question">

CSS:

.question { color: blue; }

JavaScript:

jQuery(document).ready( setupQuestions );

function setupQuestions() {
  jQuery('.question').click( function() {
    event.preventDefault();
    var param2 = this.id.replace('question','answer');
    Answer(this.id, param2, 'red', 'green');
  });
}

In general, if you are writing the same code more than twice, there's a Better Way.

Don't forget to load jQuery.