Question

I’m debugging some ColdFusion code (although the question is really language-agnostic), and from the debug output, have two columns of text.

Those columns are field name <tab> value and want to be able to quickly convert this into test code.

The text I start off with:

a   1
b   2
c   3
etc

The code I want to end up with:

structInsert(myStruct, "a", 1);
structInsert(myStruct, "b", 2);
structInsert(myStruct, "c", 3);
etc

Ordinarily, I’d use Excel, pasting the two columns of data into columns A and B, and create a formula in column C that concatenates A and B something like

="structInsert(myStruct, """ & A1 & """, " & B1 & ");"

This works fine (and is one of the main reasons I love Excel).

But I’m wondering… given that the whole world doesn’t have Excel, how does everyone else do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Well I like to do with Notepad++ or Eclipse with search and replace feature with regular expression.

Like search for
([a-z]*)\t(\d)
replace with
structInsert(myStruct,”\1″,\2);

So simple.. right?