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Anonymous
March 28, 2014
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Search and Replace text

  • March 28, 2014
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Apologies for what is no doubt a simple question - I'm trying to help out IT and I'm not a programmer, although maybe one day...

Anyway, I'm going to need to read a text file, and search for a string in that text file and replace it.  I see "replace" as a function but I'm not familiar with how to use it.  Poking around I found <cffile action=append> and used that to add a line to a text document.  (Just a notepad .txt)

Ultimately I'll need to unzip a folder, search and replace the string in a specific file in there, and then re-zip the file, but we'll get to that later.  I managed to unzip a folder already, that's easy enough.  Putting it all together is my current challenge.

I'm using ColdFusion Builder 2.0

Thanks for any help you guys can give.

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Correct answer WolfShade

file.txt: Contains several lines that all say "All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy".

<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="myFile">

<cfset myFile = Replace(myFile,"Dull","Bored","all")>

<cffile action="write" file="C:\file.txt" output="#myFile#" addnewline="no" fixnewline="no">

<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="myNewFile">

<cfoutput>#myNewFile#</cfoutput>

^_^

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WolfShade
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Legend
March 28, 2014

file.txt: Contains several lines that all say "All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy".

<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="myFile">

<cfset myFile = Replace(myFile,"Dull","Bored","all")>

<cffile action="write" file="C:\file.txt" output="#myFile#" addnewline="no" fixnewline="no">

<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="myNewFile">

<cfoutput>#myNewFile#</cfoutput>

^_^

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Anonymous
March 28, 2014

Very groovy.  Thanks!

WolfShade
WolfShade
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March 28, 2014

You're welcome.  Thanks for marking my response as correct.  Have a great weekend.

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