Aligning "=" using script in UE v13.00

[Dawk]

After giving up on writing this as a macro, I decided to try doing it with javascript. The following works, although it is a bit slow.

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function getpos()
{
   pos = 0;
   while (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isColNumGt(pos))
   {
         pos++;
   }
   return pos;
}

UltraEdit.columnModeOn();

var longest = 0;
var pos;
var current;
var padding = "";

UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");

while (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isFound())
{
   current = getpos();
   if (current > longest)
   {
      longest = current;
   }
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.key("RIGHT ARROW");
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");
}
UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");
while (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isFound())
{
   current = getpos();
   padding = "";
   for (var i = current; i < longest; i++)
   {
      padding += " ";
   }
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.write(padding+"=");
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.key("RIGHT ARROW");
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find("=");
}
UltraEdit.activeDocument.bottom();
UltraEdit.columnModeOff();


Before:

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suggestion = "no idea what to write here"
xp = "quite a bit"
beginning = "hard"
asdf = 1233
// comment line
asdf2 = skumhest


After:

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suggestion = "no idea what to write here"
xp         = "quite a bit"
beginning  = "hard"
asdf       = 1233
// comment line
asdf2      = skumhest


[Bego]

Hi dawk,

I tried to enhance your script by a regexp to replace leading blanks before aligning.
Otherwise you get

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a = 12356
bbb = 34566
  ccccccc = 0567567567
 dd = 3344
 

--> your code

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a         = 12356
bbb       = 34566
  ccccccc = 0567567567
 dd       = 3344

but I want:

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a         = 12356
bbb       = 34566
ccccccc   = 0567567567
dd        = 3344

(or with 2 blanks less before the =)

rds Bego