Your welcome. Be certain to ask if you have other questions.
Miguel Quirós wrote:
El mar, 06-06-2006 a las 21:38 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak escribió:
Miguel Quirós wrote:
Thank you very much for your answer. As I told, I am not expert in
writing macros and I am just using the things that I can see are used by
the macro recorder (the dispatcher) and try to adapt them to my needs.
From your answer, I deduce that there are methods easier to use than the
dispatcher (.searchString).
Unfortunately, they are not easier, because you need to learn how things
work inside of OOo.
Many examples are available that can be adapted to the problems that you
want to solve. Also, sometimes the macro recorder works for what you
want, and sometimes it does not.
I have a free macro document that contains many examples (this is
different than my book):
http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Thank you again. I hava had a quick look and it looks like a magnificent
work (I imagine that the book will be even more magnificent). I will
need to find some time to grab at least the fundamentals of what it is
said here.
There are so many resources that I can not easily list them all. There
are code snippets with examples:
http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/
There is a forum that you can search:
http://www.oooforum.org/
My needs are to search all occurrences of a determinate string in a
document
You did not say why you wanted to search for every occurrence of the
string. Ignoring the "replace it" part, here is an example that finds
all occurrences:
Take a look at my macro document in section 7.14 titled "Search And
Replace". Does this help at all?
At first sight, I think I have found something useful. The result of
findFirst used as result.end can be used for findNext as starting point
to find the next occurence. Anyway, it is clear I would need to find
time to learn more, not easy ...
In any case, thanks a lot for your help.
and, in some cases just replace it by another simple string (in
which case I see that there is something called .replaceAll that may be
useful and easy to use) and in other cases by something more complicated
like putting a new string with special symbols, superindexes , etc in
it, in this case perhaps .replaceAll cannot do all the work.
As suggested, I am sending this message also to dev@api.openoffice.org
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
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See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html
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