The find/replace feature

[Rumf]

Hello,

Using Photoshop's find/replace tool I am trying to do this:

1. Find the word "Moon".

2. Replace it with:

"The Moon is full tonight.

How beautiful!"

The find/replace tool only replaces with the first line, "The Moon is full tonight."

It compleatly ignores what is after the paragraph break. And I need the paragraph break! I even tried to resolve this with PS scripting, I can get the whole text, but no paragraph break... And it is driving me crazy :banghead:

Any ideeas, please?!

 

[ibclare]

Is there some reason you can't do this manually?

 

[Rumf]

I need to batch this for hundreds of files... A great someone helped with the solution today, I am attachimg a PS script just In case some needs this in the future. It replaces the word "Hello" with the contens of an external file. For paragraph breaks use \n\n

var file = new File ( "C:\\the-text-file.txt" );
file.open("r");
var open_the_file = file.read();

var str = String(open_the_file).split("\\n").join("\r");

var id3 = stringIDToTypeID( "replace" );
var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
var id4 = charIDToTypeID( "null" );
var ref1 = new ActionReference();
var id5 = charIDToTypeID( "Prpr" );
var id6 = stringIDToTypeID( "replace" );
ref1.putProperty( id5, id6 );
var id7 = charIDToTypeID( "TxLr" );
var id8 = charIDToTypeID( "Ordn" );
var id9 = charIDToTypeID( "Al " );
ref1.putEnumerated( id7, id8, id9 );
desc2.putReference( id4, ref1 );
var id10 = charIDToTypeID( "Usng" );
var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();
var id11 = stringIDToTypeID( "find" );
desc3.putString( id11, "Hello" );
var id12 = stringIDToTypeID( "replace" );
desc3.putString( id12, str );
var id13 = stringIDToTypeID( "checkAll" );
desc3.putBoolean( id13, true );
var id14 = charIDToTypeID( "Fwd " );
desc3.putBoolean( id14, false );
var id15 = stringIDToTypeID( "caseSensitive" );
desc3.putBoolean( id15, true );
var id16 = stringIDToTypeID( "wholeWord" );
desc3.putBoolean( id16, false );
var id17 = stringIDToTypeID( "findReplace" );
desc2.putObject( id10, id17, desc3 );
executeAction( id3, desc2, DialogModes.NO );

 

[IamSam]

Hi Rumf, I think you have inadvertently discovered that the Find and Replace feature was not designed to incorporate paragraph breaks.

Seems you have found your solution.

Take care.