Thread: Possible scripting engine for Sigil
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Old 10-15-2009, 08:18 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by JohnnyD View Post
OK, time for a suggestion everyone will burn down straight away

I needed some kind of text changed in 50+ chapters (it was some navigational code in a bunch of HTML-files which I was converting to an epub-book). So I took a deep breath, googled a bit, read a bit and wrote my first regular expression. Using Search&Replace in jEdit. And it was really easy (I must admit, though, that I have been a software engineer for 15 years).

So here is another scripting alternative for Sigil: Global Search&Replace with support for regular expressions! It should be quite easy to implement in Sigil (there are lots of regex libraries with well-defined API's) and I think it will take care of 99% of my scripting needs...

Anyone in favor of this option?

If you're unsure, check out this tutorial for regular expressions
You may have missed that S&R with regex support is actually being worked on right now and will end up in the next release.

Just FYI, regexes are not really a scripting language.
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