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• • October 23, 2014 at 2:25 pm #71213
    Anonymous

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    hello, im working on a law paper and have some problems with numbers.. to be more specific:

    what i have:
    “you can find something in § 15, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 55..”
    what i want to have:
    “you can find something in § 15, 25-29, 55..”
    or
    “we discussed this problem on pages 15, 16, 17”
    what i want to have:
    “we discussed this problem on pages 15-17” (or 15 to 17, doesnt really matter)

    of course, the numbers are different every time, the point is i need to find a set of numbers in range and change them to a simple separator..

    is anything like this even possible by using GREP? or a script?

    many thanks!

  • October 26, 2014 at 7:14 am #71250
    Oleh Melnyk

    Member

    Hi,

    I’m not a great scripter, but here is my solution https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6ctvw1kl5povi9/Detect%20digit%20range.jsx?dl=0

    Script code is pretty dirty and requires a strong refactoring, but seems it works just as it should – check and let me know how it goes…

    If somebody have any suggestions of how to improve this script – feel free to contact me!

  • November 4, 2014 at 3:18 am #71421
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    hello there,

    sorry for the late response..

    your script works great! it finds all the numbers i want and changes it to what i need, but..

    ..it changes numbers i dont want to be changed, f.e. 5,6 changes to 5-6 (i only need to put the separator between three numbers in range, not two..)

    is it fixable? can you change the script this way? (i tried and failed miserably :)

    anyway, good job, thank you for it and if my problem with two numbers in range doesnt have the solution, i can handle it ;)

    thanks again and be well!

  • November 4, 2014 at 2:02 pm #71431
    Oleh Melnyk

    Member

    I spent whole day, trying to figure out how to make this work and how to refactor the code.. I thought that my brain will blow up.. but I finally made it, and now I get satisfaction from this)))

    check updated version and let me know if it works for you https://www.dropbox.com/s/llzn9d6iq8ikiyo/Detect%20digit%20range%202.jsx?dl=0

  • November 5, 2014 at 3:43 pm #71453
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    you, sir, you deserve a medal! works perfectly and thanks for the alert, i promise i will never run the script twice :D

    you didnt have to spend so much time with it but Im very glad you did :)

    i looked at the script you made and its so complicated my brain almost blew up as well, incredible!

    once again, thanks a lot!

    i wish i had something to offer to help you with (im afraid i dont but you can try ;)

    take care!

  • November 5, 2014 at 4:37 pm #71455
    Oleh Melnyk

    Member

    haha)) I just added another “if” to check if ranges are already set, so script will not screw up now after multiple execution.. you may remove alert if they bother you)))

    upd: https://www.dropbox.com/s/llzn9d6iq8ikiyo/Detect%20digit%20range%202.jsx?dl=0

  • November 11, 2014 at 2:36 am #71557
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    the alerts are fine, at least i know i used the script correctly :)

    have a one tasty beer on me, good man! :)

    take care

  • November 11, 2014 at 5:32 am #71558
    Oleh Melnyk

    Member

    actually I have discovered a serious bug in previous version: if there is more than one string with ranges – script replace second and all other digit-strings with first formatted result, which is not good.. so I made another update:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6ctvw1kl5povi9/Detect%20digit%20range.jsx?dl=0

    in this version:
    – script work correctly with more than one digit-string per document
    – it can now work with selection only, if nothing selected – it will process whole document
    – it use progress bar instead of alerts
    … and other small fixes

  • November 13, 2014 at 9:16 am #71618
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    you really want to get the medal, dont you? :)
    to be honest i tried the script only on a small piece of work and it worked good, i havent finished the whole job yet..
    but thank you again for taking care of the script, i believe this time its absolutely perfect (unless you find other bug in it :)
    thanks and be well!

  • November 13, 2014 at 9:23 am #71619
    Oleh Melnyk

    Member

    no, I don’t need medals, lol
    I just have found this script useful, and I want to include it to my other script, that will be more complex and do multiple [clever] find/change fixes, that’s why I’m searching for bugs and keep fixing them

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