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- | Search and replace the system or a Named Clipboard, optionally using regular expressions, and allowing Text Tokens. The replacement can also include $1 tokens for regular expression replacements. | + | The Search and Replace Clipboard action allows you to search the system clipboard or a named clipboard for text and replace the found text. |
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+ | {{:action:searchreplaceclipboard.png|}} | ||
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+ | You can search for: | ||
+ | * Strings, matching the case. | ||
+ | * Strings, ignoring the case. | ||
+ | * Regular Expression, matching the case. | ||
+ | * Regular Expression, ignoring the case. | ||
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+ | Select where to search using the //Search// pop-up. | ||
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+ | Select the kind of search to run, from the //using// pop-up. Then enter the text to search for in the text area. | ||
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+ | Enter what to replace the found text with in the //and replace with// text area. Use the arrow at the right of the text area to select variables, calculations, clipboards and other tokens to enter in the text area. | ||
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+ | Examples: | ||
+ | * Search for a string such as Monday and replace with Tuesday. | ||
+ | * Use a regular expression to search through a list of names where the last name appears first and switch them to be First Name Last Name. In its simplest form this could look like the following: | ||
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+ | Search for: (.+) (.+) | ||
+ | Replace with: $2 $1 | ||
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+ | {{:action:searchreplaceclipboardexample.png|}} | ||
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+ | Which results in: | ||
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+ | {{:action:searchreplaceclipboardresult.png|}} |