TextReplace plugin

Author: Instructor (talk, contrib)

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Download v1.5:
Textreplace.zip (33 KB)

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Description

Features:

• Fast search/replacement in text file
• Case sensitive/insensitive replacement
• Supports strings and pointers to the buffer
• If no changes possible, output file will be untouched
• Checks if input file is a binary file

Docs

Taken from the Readme.txt (TextReplace NSIS plugin v1.5)

Search in file

${textreplace::FindInFile} "[InputFile]" "[FindIt]" "[Options]" $var

"[InputFile]" - Input file

"[FindIt]" - String to find or pointer to the buffer if used option /PI=1

"[Options]" - Search options

 /S=[0|1]
   /S=0   - Case insensitive (default)
   /S=1   - Case sensitive (faster)
 /PI=[0|1]
   /PI=0  - FindIt is a string (default)
   /PI=1  - FindIt is a pointer to the text buffer

$var number of founded strings

      -3   ReplaceIt string is empty
      -4   can't open input file for reading
      -5   can't get file size of the input file
      -6   can't allocate buffer for input file text
      -7   can't read input file
      -8   input file is binary or wide character Unicode file 

Replace in file

${textreplace::ReplaceInFile} "[InputFile]" "[OuputFile]" "[ReplaceIt]" "[ReplaceWith]" "[Options]" $var

"[InputFile]" - Input file

"[OutputFile]" - Output file, can be equal to InputFile

"[ReplaceIt]" - String to replace or pointer to the buffer if used option /PI=1

"[ReplaceWith]" - Replace with this string or pointer to the buffer if used option /PO=1

"[Options]" - Replace options

 /S=[0|1]
   /S=0   - Case insensitive (default)
   /S=1   - Case sensitive (faster)
 /C=[1|0]
   /C=1   - Copy the file if no changes made (default)
   /C=0   - Don't copy the file if no changes made
 /AI=[1|0]
   /AI=1  - Copy attributes from the InputFile to OutputFile (default)
   /AI=0  - Don't copy attributes
 /AO=[0|1]
   /AO=0  - Don't change OutputFile attributes (error "-9" possible) (default)
   /AO=1  - Change OutputFile attributes to normal before writting
 /PI=[0|1]
   /PI=0  - ReplaceIt is a string (default)
   /PI=1  - ReplaceIt is a pointer to the text buffer
 /PO=[0|1]
   /PO=0  - ReplaceWith is a string (default)
   /PO=1  - ReplaceWith is a pointer to the text buffer

$var number of replacements

      -1   ReplaceIt pointer is incorrect
      -2   ReplaceWith pointer is incorrect
      -3   ReplaceIt string is empty
      -4   can't open input file for reading
      -5   can't get file size of the input file
      -6   can't allocate buffer for input file text
      -7   can't read input file
      -8   input file is binary or wide character Unicode file 
      -9   can't open output file for writting
      -10  can't allocate buffer for output file text
      -11  can't write to the output file

Put text file contents to the buffer

${textreplace::FillReadBuffer} "[File]" $var

"[File]" - Input file

$var pointer to the buffer

      -4   can't open input file for reading
      -5   can't get file size of the input file
      -6   can't allocate buffer for input file text
      -7   can't read input file
      -8   input file is binary or wide character Unicode file 

Free buffer

${textreplace::FreeReadBuffer} "[Pointer]"

"[Pointer]" - Pointer to the buffer

Unload plugin

${textreplace::Unload}