V2.3 -- Batch Replace no longer working?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:10 pm
First off -- Wanted to pass along how much I continue to love this product. Truly among the best $30 I ever spent.
However -- having a problem.
I had been neglectful in updating (mainly because the un-patched version suited me perfectly). However -- ran into a problem this morning trying to do a batch replacement using a tab delimited text file as for the strings, running over an *.sgm file. Kept getting fatal errors in AFR. The file's a fairly large one -- ~90 megs. Sooo... figured maybe it was time to update after all. Downloaded and installed v2.3.
Re-ran -- no crashes -- but no replacements made.
I'm basically replacing some file attributes with some missing values (using my 'normval' attribute as a specific hook to insert the right 'sort-date' attribute where necessary):
Find normval="300,000" sort-date=""
with normval="300,000" sort-date="20060101"
I've got about 200 of these.
I've tried using a *.sgm mask, a *.* mask... I've tried using multiple copies of the files. I've tried importing my list of replacements in different ways (i.e. tried instead saving a csv, then importing, tried a semicolon CSV, tried saving as a configuration).
I've played with all the batch replace options I can think -- checking, then unchecking different coding...
Nothing seems to work. I doublecheck that my search string does exist -- and they do (using my text editor, not an SGML editor-- searched for my "find" value). No line breaks that might be causing this, no extra spacing, no hidden characters....
AFR just no longer seems to be able to find the values. It just spins through the file - -reports finding it, asks me if I wish to process, finishes in a second or 2 without performing any replacements -- empty report, and when I look at the file, it's unchanged.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
However -- having a problem.
I had been neglectful in updating (mainly because the un-patched version suited me perfectly). However -- ran into a problem this morning trying to do a batch replacement using a tab delimited text file as for the strings, running over an *.sgm file. Kept getting fatal errors in AFR. The file's a fairly large one -- ~90 megs. Sooo... figured maybe it was time to update after all. Downloaded and installed v2.3.
Re-ran -- no crashes -- but no replacements made.
I'm basically replacing some file attributes with some missing values (using my 'normval' attribute as a specific hook to insert the right 'sort-date' attribute where necessary):
Find normval="300,000" sort-date=""
with normval="300,000" sort-date="20060101"
I've got about 200 of these.
I've tried using a *.sgm mask, a *.* mask... I've tried using multiple copies of the files. I've tried importing my list of replacements in different ways (i.e. tried instead saving a csv, then importing, tried a semicolon CSV, tried saving as a configuration).
I've played with all the batch replace options I can think -- checking, then unchecking different coding...
Nothing seems to work. I doublecheck that my search string does exist -- and they do (using my text editor, not an SGML editor-- searched for my "find" value). No line breaks that might be causing this, no extra spacing, no hidden characters....
AFR just no longer seems to be able to find the values. It just spins through the file - -reports finding it, asks me if I wish to process, finishes in a second or 2 without performing any replacements -- empty report, and when I look at the file, it's unchanged.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks