Particularly posted for Librebel with thanks for his intent to help: Yes, Hubert Lambert has solved this persistent problem at the Apache Open Office Forum: Solved: Match Individual Macro API with the API index?
I have this example_txt.odt to show how I wish to use “Line Breaks” and “Paragraph Marks” to ease and automate the numbering of writing point-wise instruction steps. If I used Para mark somewhat differently in the text, I would have to manually engage in editing the document to suit my purpose.
Please refer to these posts:
Recall the following:
Paragraph character (`¶`): U+000D CR Carriage Return (0x0013)
(entered at keyboard with `Enter` or `Return` key)
Line-Break character (`↲`): U+000A LF Line Feed (0x00010)
(entered at keyboard with `Shift+Enter` or `Shift+Return` key)
I want to build this macro:
- I will have two String variables declared within the macro.
- I use Find with Wild Characters to find out texts like
[a-z.A-Z.0-9]$. (These are usually the Title for the Paragraph.) - For the first string my find encounters, I take this entire string into the string variable, including the
¶mark. - I then count the length of the string. Suppose this is
n. - I now take (n-1)th ‘string-elements’ into consideration, and fill the second string with this truncated string and the
↲as the last element. - I replace the first string with this second string.
- I do this from the top every time, till there are no other such entries I wish to replace.
Presently, I am able to replace such strings like [a-z.A-Z.0-9]$ with #####&, the & code is used to print the ##### after the text but before the ¶mark to help me identify such lines. These marks help me in manually editing the text.
How could I build this macro? I used the macro recorder, but can’t use the codes from within the macros for (¶): U+000D CR Carriage Return (0x0013) or (↲): U+000A LF Line Feed (0x00010)
Further Edited on 31/07/2017 at 1849Hrs (GMT+0530Hrs):
Dear librebel
One problem still remains:
I learnt to understand your codes. Thank you for introducing me to StarBasic. Subsequently, I am in https://forum.openoffice.org. I partially modified the strings to be replaced:
rem Replace all Paragraph Breaks With Linefeeds
Function Writer_ReplaceAll_Paragraph_Breaks_With_Linefeeds() As Long
REM Replaces all Paragraph breaks with a Linefeed character within the current Writer document.
REM Returns: the number of found/replaced occurrences.
Dim oReplace as Object
oReplace = ThisComponent.createReplaceDescriptor()
oReplace.setSearchString( "[a-z,A-Z,0-9]$" )
oReplace.setReplaceString( "&" + chr(10) )
oReplace.SearchRegularExpression = True
Writer_ReplaceAll_Paragraph_Breaks_With_Linefeeds = ThisComponent.replaceAll( oReplace )
End Function
Then I added another code to take care of the extra ¶mark after the ↲, because after running your modified code, I find that an extra empty para mark is left.
REM Reiteration to remove empty paras after above action
Function Writer_ReplaceAll_Blank_Paras() As Long
Dim bReplace as Object
bReplace = ThisComponent.createReplaceDescriptor()
bReplace.setSearchString( chr(10) + "^$" )
bReplace.setReplaceString( chr(10) )
bReplace.SearchRegularExpression = True
Writer_ReplaceAll_Blank_Paras = ThisComponent.replaceAll( bReplace )
End Function
If I try to run this second code, I can’t find any result. Why? Where am I going wrong?
[Edited on 01/08/2017 in response to Librebel’s advice]
You said:
Perhaps you could use the following
macro for that: … …
oReplace.setSearchString( "$" )
…
But that line won’t serve my purpose. I am enclosing the three files, Test, Tested and WhatIWant
test.odt This is the original file to be edited.
tested.odt This is after running the first macro.
WhatIwant.odt This is what I really want.
I did try with \n\n in the second macro, but it doesn’t work. Where am I going wrong?