Best way to do search and replace

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mjpg
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Best way to do search and replace

Post by mjpg » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:40 am

I have a lot of CMS pages that have an organisation name to be changed. To do this I'd like to be able to change the text in input boxes and text areas - for example:

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"Information from ABC Company"
to become

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"Information from DEF Organisation"
I can see how to extract the input, and how to write it back, but not how to replace part of the extracted text. iMacros does not seem to have 'REPLACE'.

I assume this is where the scripting interface comes in? I have some scripting experience, but mainly PHP and Javascript.

What is the best/quickest way to do this?

Using iMacros Firefox 3 extension, XP pro.
dharmendra2000
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Re: Best way to do search and replace

Post by dharmendra2000 » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:14 am

Question is not 100% clear but looking at below code...
Information from ABC Company
Information from DEF Organisation

I think you want to enter different values in textbox, and underlined value will change every time, is it so?
mjpg
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Re: Best way to do search and replace

Post by mjpg » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:36 am

The text box will have text:
Information from ABC Company

I want to replace "ABC Company" with "DEF Organisation"

so that the text in the text box reads:
Information from DEF Organisation

Can I do this with the Javascript macro files included with iMacro - eg:
1. run a macro to extract the text
2. Use the JS to do the replacement
3. Run a further macro to write back the updated text?

Thanks for your reply
Last edited by mjpg on Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
additional001
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Re: Best way to do search and replace

Post by additional001 » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:03 pm

Yes all of that should be possible with Javascript and iim scripting. If you have more than one Company name you have to replace you may want to use a CSV file to read from and post back with. Otherwise you can just use "A DEF Company" in a variable or straight text.
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