From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search and replace for a single file using a pattern file
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 07:05:58 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2a782e5-34f5-4705-8235-b3ce22423876@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <240d8da5-5078-4ecc-a285-0719841d124a@googlegroups.com>
On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 3:32:32 PM UTC+5:30, Angus Comber wrote:
> I have some horrible logs where integers are printed for states and I want to do a global search and replace on the file to eg replace integer x with a string.
>
> I can obviously do individually using c-m-% but that is fairly laborious. So use of a search and replace mapping in a text file would be really convenient.
>
> Is this possible? any suggestions?
I'd combine Tomás Robert's solutions:
(defvar my-codes
'((1 . bread)
(2 . cheese)
(3 . wine)))
(defun replace-all ()
(interactive)
(dolist (x my-codes)
(replace-string (number-to-string (car x))
(symbol-name (cdr x)))))
After which M-x replace-all
should do it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-04 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 10:02 Search and replace for a single file using a pattern file Angus Comber
2018-01-04 10:28 ` Robert Pluim
2018-01-04 10:50 ` tomas
2018-01-04 15:05 ` Rusi [this message]
2018-01-04 16:54 ` Rusi
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