looping over lines in the selection

[mrmtmo]

Is there a way to loop over each line in the current selection?

e.g.

for each line in selection
// do something to this line if it matches criteria
end for

I see the selection property in the help but it is documented as read only.

-Michael

[Jaretin]

Don't know what exactly you want.
May this will help you.

Code: Select all

UltraEdit.insertMode();
UltraEdit.hexOff;
UltraEdit.ueReOn();
UltraEdit.columnModeOff();
var CRLF = "\r\n"; /* LineFeed character */

var myLines = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection;
lines = myLines.split( CRLF );
for ( i in lines ) {
//check any condition you want. here just true
   if ( true ) {
      lines[i] = "" + i + " " + lines[i];
   }
}
for ( i in lines ) {
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.write(lines[i]+CRLF);
}


[Mofi]

And do you know that you can run a Replace All in the just selected area. With tagged regular expressions this method is normally the fastest and easiest method to reformat a selection.

[mrmtmo]

Thanks for the responses! It gives me some avenues to test.

Basically, I just looking to write a script that will process a selection that contains lines of C++ declarations or definitions. One of the characters I need to manipulate is the semicolon at the end of a line. Replace All might compromise other semicolons (e.g. for loops) unless I use regular expressions... which I could do I suppose.