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Code Red => AutoLISP (Vanilla / Visual) => Topic started by: MSTG007 on March 13, 2019, 07:49:07 AM

Title: Find and Replace text files
Post by: MSTG007 on March 13, 2019, 07:49:07 AM
I am putting together a drawing of a county with shapefiles within Autodesk MAP. I decided to do one county before I did the rest of the counties within the State. Then use this as a master to save out.

Inside the Task Pane, I have several shapfiles that are formatted visually; the way I would like to see them. I can save out these out as (.layers) files of each one.

I am wondering if its possible to take the saved (.layers) files and perform a find and replace on the file names and the contents within the (.layers) file that can be read with a text editor?

For instance, Marion_Co_Lakes_SPE, I would like to find and replace the "Marion" part with "Madison". Then perform the same step on the other (.layers) files.

Title: Re: Find and Replace text files
Post by: CincyJeff on March 13, 2019, 11:46:28 AM
Since it is a standard text file in Notepad you should be able to find and replace. I used to do it with AutoCAD profile files.
Title: Re: Find and Replace text files
Post by: MSTG007 on March 13, 2019, 11:50:09 AM
Yup. That is what I am doing right now. I have a lot of counties to go. If I change one of the layer format. I would need to do it for the rest of the counties lol.
Title: Re: Find and Replace text files
Post by: dgorsman on March 13, 2019, 09:51:27 PM
That's not just text, that's XML.  While you could try a standard search and replace, you might get better results manipulating it as XML.