Case insensitive replace

[Ghoulfool]

I'm working on a script that does a text search and replace in layer names, but it could be improved with the addition of case insensivity

function processLayers (srcDoc) {

for (var i = 0; i < numLayers; i++)
{
var thisLayer = srcDoc.artLayers.name;

if (thisLayer.search(mySearch) != -1)
{
   tempName = app.activeDocument.artLayers.name
   app.activeDocument.artLayers.name = tempName.replace(mySearch,myReplace)
}
}

} //function close

I know the javascript method is to add slash i for case insensitive but I don't know how that transfers to the Photoshop DOM. Can anyone kindly help me out. Cheers

[Muppet_Mark-QAl63s]

Im not sure I understand what you want here… Could you not just pass your 'mySearch' to the reg exp constructor and have that include case or ignore case…

[Michael_L_Hale]

You can either use a RegExp as Mark suggested or force the case to what ever case your replace string is using.

tempName = app.activeDocument.artLayers[0].name.toLowerCase();

[Ghoulfool]

Sorry I didn't explain it very well. If the user puts in "layer" as the search criteria it would replace any layers called "layer", "LAYER" or "Layer" The replacement would be to lowercase.

[Michael_L_Hale]

Yes, "layer", "LAYER" or "Layer" all return 'layer' with toLowerCase() so replace should find and replace any of those three layer names if 'layer' is the search string.

[Ghoulfool]

var srcD

oc = app.activeDocument;
fileName = app.activeDocument.name;

var search = new Object();
var replace = new Object();
// prompt for search criteria
search.pattern = prompt('Enter the search pattern to look for for all layers.\n', 'Search');
replace.pattern = prompt('Enter the word to REPLACE ' + search.pattern + '.\n', 'Replace');

alert("Replacing  '"+ search.pattern + "' to be replaced with '" + replace.pattern + "'.")

var mySearch = search.pattern;
var myReplace = replace.pattern;

var numLayers = srcDoc.layers.length;

var layers = srcDoc.layers;

processLayers (srcDoc)

function processLayers (srcDoc)

{
   for (var i = 0; i < numLayers; i++)
      {

         // extra line here
         var layer = layers;
     
         if (layer.typename == 'LayerSet')
         {
            alert("This is a group")
         }
       
      else
    
         {
     
      // returning lowercase of string
      var thisLayer = srcDoc.artLayers.name.toLowerCase();
        // alert (i + " " + layer)

            tempName = app.activeDocument.artLayers[0].name.toLowerCase();

         if (thisLayer.search(mySearch) != -1)
          
            {
            tempName = app.activeDocument.artLayers.name.toLowerCase();
            app.activeDocument.artLayers.name = tempName.replace(mySearch,myReplace)
            }
         }
      }

} // function close

The code now works as I want it to. But it ignores groups buts falls over with layers in groups. As i'm not sure how they are indexed I'm a bit stumpted. Is there any documentation on layersets that I might find useful. Cheers

[Muppet_Mark-QAl63s]

Ghoulfool, I gave this a go… Ran a few basic tests and I think I got it right? Do let me know… Quite possibly not the most efficient way… But there you go…

#target photoshop function layerNamer() {      var opts = new Object();      var win = new Window('dialog','Rename Layers…');      win.preferredSize = [200,undefined];      win.opacity = 0.95;      var red = 0, green = (1/256)*102, blue = (1/256)*153;      win.graphics.backgroundColor = win.graphics.newBrush      (win.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR, [red, green, blue]);      var grp1 = win.add('group');      grp1.orientation = 'column';      var opText = grp1.add('statictext',undefined,'Options: ');      opText.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont('Helvetica', 'Bold', 12);      opText.graphics.foregroundColor = opText.graphics.newPen      (opText.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0], 1);      grp1.add('statictext', [5,15,195,37], 'Find String/Expression:');      var findEdit = grp1.add('edittext', [5,45,195,67], '');      findEdit.graphics.backgroundColor = findEdit.graphics.newBrush      (findEdit.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0], 1);      findEdit.active = true;      grp1.add('statictext', [5,75,195,97], 'Replacement String:');      var repEdit = grp1.add('edittext', [5,105,195,127], '');      repEdit.graphics.backgroundColor = repEdit.graphics.newBrush      (repEdit.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0], 1);      var chkboxA = grp1.add('checkbox', [5,135,195,157], 'Case Sensitive');      var chkboxB = grp1.add('checkbox', [5,165,195,187], 'Global');      var chkboxC = grp1.add('checkbox', [5,195,195,217], 'Include Text Layers');      var grp2 = win.add('group');      grp2.cancelBtn = grp2.add('button',undefined,'Cancel',{name:'cancel'});      grp2.okBtn = grp2.add('button',undefined,'OK',{name:'ok'});      grp2.okBtn.onClick = function() {           opts.find = findEdit.text;           opts.replace = repEdit.text;           opts.ignore = chkboxA.value;           opts.global = chkboxB.value;           opts.txtLay = chkboxC.value;                      processDoc(opts);           win.close(0);      };      win.center();      win.show(); }; if ( app.documents.length > 0) { layerNamer(); } function processDoc(opts) {            var find;      if ( opts.global && !opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find,'gi'); }      if ( opts.global && opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find,'g'); }      if ( !opts.global && !opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find,'i'); }            if ( !opts.global && opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find); }            var doc = app.activeDocument;            recurseLayers(doc.layers);            function recurseLayers(layObj) {           for ( var i = 0; i < layObj.length; i++ ) {                if ( find.test(layObj.name) )                     {                          if (layObj.kind == LayerKind.TEXT && !opts.txtLay) { continue; }                                                    layObj.name = layObj.name.replace(find,opts.replace);                     }                if ( layObj.typename == 'LayerSet' )                     { recurseLayers(layObj.layers); }           }      } };

[Ghoulfool]

Mark did tou mean to post this here or maybe on the end of Clevadio's post looking for replacing text (not layer names)

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/848745?tstart=0

[Muppet_Mark-QAl63s]

I was meant to be here with regard to your last comment about layers within layer sets… if thats what you meant by groups?