[ldm]

I need a help for writing a JavaScript, which place a character (let’s say the [] brackets) around the highlighted text.
Thank you!

[ToadLoadin]

Hi, I’m not a JavaScript geek, but I guess you could use code like:

charBefore = "[;

	charAfter = ]";

	strSelectedText = document.selection.Text;

	

	document.selection.Text = charBefore + strSelectedText + charAfter;

[Stefan]

Yes i do it the same way:

	#title = "Enclose selection";

	#tooltip = "Enclose an selection with an sign";

	// Select some text and execute this macro to put an sign 

	// in front and at the end of the selected text;

	

	//mySign = "\%"

	  mySign =  prompt( "Enter sign to enclose selection:", "\%" );

	

	  selText = document.selection.Text;

	  outText = mySign + selText + mySign;

	

	

	  //alert(outText);

	  document.selection.Text = outText;

	

	

Should be easy to modify this code
and replace mySign with LeadingSign and TrailingSign :-)

[ldm]

ToadLoadin & Stefan! Thanks a lot!
But now I need one more tip please :-)
Does JavaScript supports Regular Expressions?
Let’s say I need to replace a text, which matches the pattern ^(;[ ]*[ ])(.*) with this one: 1[2]
How would I do so?
Thank you!

[Stefan]

EmEditor Help – EmEditor Macro Reference – Tutorial > Using Regular Expressions

EmEditor Help – How to – Search > Regular Expression Syntax

[ldm]

Stefan, the issue is not with the RegEx syntax, but how use the RegEx expressions inside of the Java Scripts (please see my previous post).
How should I let to Java know that I wrote a regular expression and not just a string?
Thank you!

[ldm]

Stefan,
I’ve got it!
Thanks!

[Author]

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