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Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

anderson51 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:32:58 GMT

Is there a find/replace command that will work with mtext or mleaders that have multiple lines of text within them? I am unable to get the standard find/replace command to work with these types.

Much appreciation.

Anderson51

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

anderson51 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:57:28 GMT

Example:

I want to "find" this entire string of mtext

And replace with this text string:

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

pendean — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:08:32 GMT

FIND command's replace option works just fine with MTEXT: perhaps you have something else going on?

Post your sample mtext in a DWG file and explain how we can do what you are trying to do that does not work.

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

anderson51 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:12:11 GMT

Im am talking about the FIND commands FIND option not being able to recognize multiple lines of text at once.

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:41:14 GMT

Are they multiple lines because of a defined box width that is causing word wrapping, or is there a hard return that's moving to the next line? FIND works in the former, not in the latter. In this:

if there is a space after "is" and the new line is caused by word wrapping, FIND will find "is a" in there. If the new line is by hard return / Enter, it won't find that, and while the entity data entry for the content says:

(1 . "this is\\Pa test")

with the \\P representing the hard return, FIND will not see it if I put in "is\\Pa". [Nor if I used just one backslash, for those who are wondering.]

I have a feeling this has come up before, but I don't recall whether someone had a solution, but I'll leave the Searching to you.

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

anderson51 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:19:22 GMT

Hard return

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

anderson51 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:20:45 GMT

Also, It appears the standard FIND command is not recognizing the diameter symbol at all.

Good day sir

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

pendean — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:35:46 GMT

Thanks for following up with better explanations;
Hard returns are ignored. always been the case. Nothing you can do about it, that is no longer a single sentence, basic language knowledge, doesn't your favorite word processor also work like that?

There is no allowance for symbols in FIND, since you cannot find it on your keyboard as a single key (a requirement): a limitation of symbols, keyboards, fonts and such.

Perhaps a LISP or other advanced customization language in AutoCAD can just delete the top line and leave the bottom line for you (as in your example): those forums are over here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-customization/ct-p/AutoCADTopic1

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

ВeekeeCZ — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:10:31 GMT

Try THIS

Re: Find/Replace command that works with multiple lines of text in leader or Mtext

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:57:49 GMT

Continued over in the Customization Forum, >here<.