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BB Code Generating and Removing. Preparing Forum Post in Word
The next few posts are intended to share a few codes and ideas and explanations thereof for the some codes to manipulate text including BB Code Code Tags. The codes will consider text in a WORD document, or simple text copied from anywhere into the Clipboard.
One use of this would be that this prepared text could then be copied across to a Forum Editor before posting the Reply. This has been getting more popular recently.
Most people do not actually favor longer posts and prefer using the Forum Editor for a quick monochrome response. A minority have asked me to share the codes and stuff I use when preparing longer posts in Word. So will post here and refer here when I am asked. I don’t think it suits a “Tips and Tutorials “ post in this case
BB Code What is that.
You need to understand the basic idea about code of the HTM, HTML type . All you need to understand is the typical form , pseudo, like with a “start” and a “stop” so that the actual stored “source” file might look like this ( stored usually in plain black and white – I am just using color to help show up different bits )
_____|MakeColor=Red|I want this to be red|/MakeColor|
So that above would be stored in a simple text File with a name like “MyBBCodeText.txt”. It would just be monochrome ( Black and white) text.
In general , the purpose of such a code is to produce somehow in some way this, for you to “see”
_____I want this to be red
It is code of that basic sort that comes down the internet lines to you. Your Browser is like the program that translates that to what you want to see.
In Forum Software from a company or companies that go by the name of Bulletin or similar, they use a simplified version of this sort of code. The text of anything that you post is actually held in such a simple .txt type Text File.
If you wish to, you can actually write using the BB Code format in any reply window. What is then actually displayed in the final seen Thread, is what is interoperated by the Forum software: The Forum Software will recognize simple text and / or BB Code.
For example , If you type the following two BB Code lines in the Forum Editor Window:_..
( Note:For a “CODE tag pair” you have a short cut Icon # ( Not available at Eileen’s Lounge ) )_......
[color=red]I want this to be red[/color]
[CODE]This I want to come out in Code Tags[/CODE]
So it should look like this in the Forum Editor Window
CodeTags.jpg http://imgur.com/xmSkc4O Attachment 502044
Attachment 1896Attachment 1896
_....... then you will get this in the posted “seen” reply
CodeTagsPosted.jpg http://imgur.com/TeUUj02
Attachment 502046Attachment 1897
Attachment 1897
It is well worth logging in to the Forum, then going into the Test Area_..
http://www.excelforum.com/development-testing-forum/
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewforum.php?f=4
_.., then start a Thread with a title such as “just testing - No reply needed”
Experiment with BB Codes, especially the BB code CODE Tags. You should always use code tags for code: See rule 3.
English: http://www.excelforum.com/forum-rule...rum-rules.html
Other languages: http://www.excelforum.com/forums-rules/
Here some of the available BB Codes:
http://services.runescape.com/m=foru...9,877,64690220
http://www.excelforum.com/misc.php?do=bbcode
For Eileen's Lounge there are some differing characterisics.
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=108
Note the Forum editor “Eats” spaces of greater than one in normal text. So if you type this in a Forum Editor:_..
My________Text_______with_______Spaces
_.. then after posting, what you “see” will be this:
My Text with Spaces.
There two ways to overcome this problem:
_1) Use the “white character trick”, using the color white: Type this in the Forum editor:
My[color=white]________[/color]Text[color=white]_______[/color]with[color=white]_______[/color]Spaces
On posting you will see this:
My________Text_______with_______Spaces
If you look very carefully you may see this:
My________Text_______with_______Spaces
What you are doing with the “white character trick” is simply displaying white text on a white background.
_2) Code tags preserve spaces. So post your text in the Forum Editor Window in Code tags thus:
[code]My________Text_______with_______Spaces[/code]
This will then come out thus:
Code:
My Text with Spaces
Note , Use of the Code tags can be very useful to compress , or make tidy, long text extending to the right. – The text can be effectively “hidden” to the right, and only viewable by use of the horizontal scroll bar. *1
Similarly, large tables and text can be compressed and only viewable by transgressing with the vertical scroll bar *2
_................................
The next posts discus some extra codes allowing easier manipulation of BB Code in a word document as a further way prepare a Forum Reply. This prepared text could then be copied across to a Forum Editor before posting the Reply. This has been getting more popular recently
'_- Rem ref:
'_- http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...tra-space.html
'_- https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/about-...ml#post4369692
'_- https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/about-...-%60-o00o.html
'_- *1 https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/about-...ml#post4466491
'_- *1 http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showth...ments#post9696
'_- http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showth...Formating-Test
'_- *2 http://www.excelforum.com/developmen...ml#post4513357
'_- *2 http://excelmatters.com/excel-forums/#comment-199348
'_- https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/about-...ml#post4752733
BB Code Generating and Removing. Preparing Forum Post in Word.
Sample Codes
The codes in this Word File, I will probably update from time to time, but the Link will probably stay the same:
“eileenslounge.docm”
https://app.box.com/s/mtwz5jil0p5nbymqrb1cgszjuyg94bea
I actually transfer all my current macros that are to do with using Microsoft Word to prepare a Forum post into the code module “NormalCodesBackUp”.
They come from where I always start putting my macros which is in some default code module God knows where which I never named or created and is in some File I never named or created called “Normal”.
The code module is called NewMacros. I do not have much experience with Word VBA, and my first codes were just done by having the macro recorder turned on whilst manually doing what I wanted. After that I modified the codes a bit and they have been available since to anything I do in word.
NormalMacros.jpg http://imgur.com/TV5YnJ8
Some codes are very simple, so explaining them all may be a bit tedious. I will just go through a few examples. ( I tend to explain a lot in the '_- Green 'comments going off to the right. )
Simple codes for putting single BB Code Code tags pairs in
I mostly got these from a macro recording done while I did what I wanted manually. Then I had some help here http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=25185 http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=26076 to refine them a bit
One further very useful thing I picked up here http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtop...=25188#p195442 is that you have available an extended range of short cut keys which you can use to trigger off a macro.
The start point of most of my codes are to select the text to which a code pair should be added
So say in my Word File I want to change the text,
'comments
to look in my word document as
[color=green]'comments[/color]
This will return me in a final posted Reply in a Thread the following:
'comments
( Note: I am putting the format, ( here coloring green ) , into the Word document of the same formatting that the BB Code Code tag pair will produce in the final forum post )
So I select that text and use in thes case the short cut keys of first
Ctrl+Shift+g
Followed by ( the extended option )
1
This is the code that does this, ( and there may be lots of better ways to do it):
Code:
Sub Makro10BBGreen() ' Ctrl+Shift+G,1 https://eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=25185#p195286
' Let Selection.Font.Color = 5287936 'Green
' Dim rng As Range: Set rng = Selection.Range
' Dim Txt As String
' Let Txt = rng.Text
' 'Let Txt = "" & Txt & " " 'Added a " " space on the end, so that at end of selection is where I want to be or..
' Let Txt = "" & Txt & ""
' Let rng.Text = Txt
' rng.Select ' Select so that I can ...
' Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd ' ... "unselect" with an option that takes me to the end of the text
' Selection.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic ' Put text color back to automatic
' Set rng = Nothing
'Or
With Selection
.Font.Color = 5287936
.Text = "" & .Text & ""
.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic
End With
End Sub
This shows the short cut combination, which is ExPlained in a bit more detail here: http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtop...=25188#p195293
http://wordribbon.tips.net/T008058_A...rtcut_Key.html
_1 Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word 2010 and Word 2013 display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.)
_2 At the left side of the dialog box click Customize (Word 2007) or Customize Ribbon (Word 2010 and Word 2013).
_3 Near the bottom of the dialog box click the Customize button. Word displays the Customize Keyboard dialog box.
_4 Scroll through the Categories list and select the Macros category. The list at the right side of the dialog box changes to show the currently available macros.
_5 In the Macros list, select the macro you want assigned to the shortcut key.
_6 With the insertion point in the Press New Shortcut Key box, press the shortcut key you want to use. For instance, if you want to use Ctrl+Alt+J, press that.
_7 Just below the Current Keys box you can see whether the shortcut key is already assigned to a different function.
_8 Click on Assign.
( _ I think 7 should read _7 Just to the Left of the Keys…… )
Note the extended options _..
Green1ShortCut.JPG http://imgur.com/zpOZljD
_..you write in Ctrl+Shift+G and then 1. You do not type in a comer , that is done for you. You also do not type in a comer when you use the keys.
Codes for white Space Tricks.
In the first post was discussed the problem with Forum Editors typically “eating” spaces in the posted Reply. I wrote a number of codes, developed here:
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=22603 http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...ml#post4329068 to do the “white space trick”
They are discussed in detail in those referenced threads.
BB Code Table Generator ( Spreadsheet screenshot copyable to a Forum Post )
Using Excel 2007 32 bit
Worksheet: Tabelle3
'_- Here just a few Posts
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showth...=9821#post9821
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showth...-BB-Code/page3
http://www.excelforum.com/developmen...ml#post4513357
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4355361
http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...ml#post4355240
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-prog...ml#post4399581
http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...ml#post4109080
Here is a File where I collected lots of such Tools, all as stand codes rather than Add-ins.
Included are also versions of Rory’s Tool as a simple code.
https://app.box.com/s/zhz7awdag4nl1zs6564s9zzcwp50e4w9
( Note: There is a separate Tool for Eileen’s lounge. In the file is a version for Excel. It is derived from Tools from Hans ( Excel and Word ) http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1421 http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2121 )
Codes to remove BB Code in text:
I may discuss these in a bit more detail, just to get the documentation down some where, as I only did it all recently.
Such codes may be of limited use. I needed to do it after a Forum Hic cup wiped out a massive amount of my threads , which I only have as a back up in text including BB Code.
I have
_ a long complicated code, that I did myself, that just works on a simple monochrome text string of the entire text.
and
_ a more sensible code which I got some help with. This will take out the BB Code Code tags but leave the text in the Format it has in the Final Thread. That is to say, the form given by the code looks in Word just as it did in the final form in the Forum post. ( Note, however, that this is only possible as the codes for putting single BB Code Code tags pairs which I used also put the corresponding format into the text in a Word document in the first place )
VBA Remove BB Code Code Tags in text. Long way around of doing it :)
VBA Remove BB Code Code Tags in text
In the next post is a code to remove BB Code Code Tags in text
This code is slightly redundant since I was given a simpler one ,
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtop...202145#p202122
which probably is more Full proof !
But I include it here with description for future reference. I may use it in a following code or codes to cross check the results given.
The code is intended to remove valid BB Code Code Tag sections from a Text string.
In this case, valid means in terms of the syntax, which is basically as follows
[TagWord=Some]Any text[/TagWord] or [B]Any text[/b]
An arbitrary string is given initially in code section Rem 1)
"gggg[d=fg]2[/d]45[/8]x[ddd[Cl=XYZ][/Cl][B]Any text[/b]"
Then the main code is as follows
Rem 2 Brief Code description
The code works backwards 100 through the whole string. It looks at a character at a time.
120 __ On If finding a ] , it notes the position of it,
140 BcrdEEnd, then keeps going back.
160___If it finds another it notes that as the ] position and carries on going back.
170 It determines the position of a [ , BcrdESt, by looking for a [\
It starts looking again for the next ] ,
250 _____If a ] is found, it checks
260 _____If the next character back is another ], Then it keeps going back. If the next character back was Not a ] , then the position of the ], BcrdSEnd, is
270 noted
A new last loop 290 starts going further back to look for a [
300 ________If it finds a [ , it notes that, BcrdSSt.
320 ________If in the unlikely event that it is a start of an end , like [\ then we have found a second End BB Code Code Tag so we do like_..
BcrdEEnd = BcrdSEnd:
BcrdESt = BcrdSSt:
BcrdSEnd=0:
( BcrdSSt=0 )
_..and go back and start again looking for the start tag. Otherwise the start position of the start tag, BcrdSSt, is noted, then it is finally time to go and think about getting rid of the code tag pair whose positions have now been determined....
430 FkOffCrd:
_..So I come to a point, aptly named, Rem 3) "I think we come here with a complete set of 4 positions". So I try to take the BB Code Code Tags out. As I am going backwards, the new string with the missing Code Tag pair does not mess up me going through the characters as I took off stuff "behind me"
450 I overdo the use of variables here because I can and do, but also because a development of the code might be to look through a list of available BB Code Code Tags to check I have them . I do one quick validity check: I check that the word after the / in the End BB Code code tag is the same as the word in the start BB Code code tag ( that before an = , if there is an = ) . Only
500____ If this condition ( which must be met for a valid BB Code code tag ) is met are the pair of tags removed by replacing them with , . Another condition is also checked: a / in second character of the stop tag.
Either from going through a code section search with possible removal, or ,
540 Else not , we are at the Next posCurrent of the main going backward Loop,
580 , so keep going back looking for another, or a first possible start ( looking from the back ).
Hopefully, for example at line 340, posCurrent would have been reduce to allow for the inner Loops going back in a code tag section search.
_................................
The code returns the string:
gggg245[/8]x[ddd[B]Any text[/b]
Wild Things. You make my heart sing. They make everything.....Groovy ........ :)
The VBA code in the last few posts is a bit of a long way around of doing what can be done in a Word Dialogue box type thing using Wild things:
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
http://imgur.com/4Nqj1HP
The problem is getting at the Wild Things needed in the Wild Find String.
I can't do it. But Hans and Paul did it for me here:
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtop...=26030#p202107
Here is my attempt at an 'ExPlanation of the solution:
Wild Things. You make my heart sing. They make everything….. Groovy
Wild Things. You make my heart sing. They make everything….. Groovy
http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=H...s_-_Wild_Thing
Wild things…. I think I hate you .. But I wanna know for sure… so
A Summary :)
As example. We want to remove the start and stop tags in a sample string containing a start and stop tag such as this_..
[color=Green]This is green[/color] This 'aint matey
_.. What we finally want is this:
This is green This 'aint matey
We use a combination of Wild things , or like a pattern to search for [ Find ] any bits like _..
[color=Green]This is green[/color]
_.. and [ Replace ] that "Find"ed with
This is green
We can do, it Wildly, man, as follows:
As always the search is done from left to right
The way I do it below is probably not the most efficient way, in fact it is probably pretty stupid, but is just to demo the idea
Optional use of ( ) in the Wild thing search string
We can use brackets ( ) , optionally , to identify, ( for later use ) , the exact string parts found by the constituent Wild things in the ( ) in which they are in:
So in this example we will use a ( ) for
_ the Wild things that find the color so that the actual word color can be used again in the same wild stuff string, so as to make sure that we find in the end tag the matching word to that in the start tag.
_ Also we need a ( ) to identify the wild things that Find This is green , as we want to use that in , or rather for the complete, Replace string.
A bracket is identified by , for example, \2 if I want to reference the actual string found by the wild things we enclose in the second ( )
Build up final Wild thing Replace string, left to right, by breaking string we want up into bits. Each bit will be found by a Wild thing or things
So we are looking to break the to search for Wild [ Find ] Thing string down thus:
Code:
[ & ( AnythingWithout=or] ) & anything & ] & (Anything) & [\ & \1 & ]
So I am breaking it down in to 8 bits. So I need 8 sections of wild stuff to Find those.
\1 is at the 7th position and refers to what is actually found by the search for ( AnythingWithout=or] ) at position 2 ( which is bracket ( ) number 1 )
Excel starts at the left. What no literature really states clearly ( and is only obvious once you know it ) is this:
_ For most sections, Excel keeps going to the right until it Finds what the Wild thing tells it to. That is then stored, but only if that found string also has joined to it the string type in the next section's Wild thing. Those two sections are then stored ( as well as storing separately if either of those two sections are enclosed in ( ) ), but only if that found string also has joined to it the string type in the next section's Wild thing. That is then stored, but only if that found string also has joined to it the string type in the next section's Wild thing. ……..etc.
A common Wild thing is * . This means anything characters and any amount. This will only include, however, anything up to if and when the next Wild thing is satisfied.
The 7th Wild thing I already have which is \1 which is referring to the 1st bit enclosed in a ( ) , which is the second bit in the broken up string , ( which is anything without a = or a ] . In our example this will be color) . Note: The number refers to the number from the left of any ( ) that I may have included, not the actual sections.
Just to make that last point clear, and to demonstrate another, I will do this_..
Code:
[ & ( AnthingWithout=or] ) & ( Anything & ] ) & (Anything) & [/ & \1 & ]
_.. so my Replace is then \3 . I do not need the second ( ___ ) , which I could reference by \2, ( and it can help to result in an "expression too complex" error ! ).
I put the second ( ___ ) in also to demo that a ( __ ) can include more than one wild bit
So here is one example Find sting with Wild things that "works" ( I added spaces to show better the 8 sections, but in use those spaces must be removed ). There are three optional ( ) sections. The second ( ) section encloses two Wild thing sections: Those are the third and forth counting from the left.
Code:
[\[] ([!\]=]@) (* \]) (*) \[/ (\1) \]
This is the actual Wild Find string
___ [\[]([!=\]]@)(*\])(*)\[/(\1)\]
To '_- ExPlain the 8 parts:
Part 1 [\[]
Excel start "looking" from the left to find a [
As a general rule Wild things are enclosed in a [ ] pair to identify them as such. So a [ ] is a Wild thing. They do not always have to be enclosed in a [ ], as is the case here. Here we are effectively looking to Find a single simple character, [.
( In the final Find string, only the second Wild section needs to be enclosed partly in a [ ] pair ).
So this section written as \[ instead is just as good. I suspect my use of the extra [ ] here does not have any bad effects, as it might be that the final string would be at compile or whatever reduced to \[ in either use of \[ or [\[]
We need to use the Wild thing, \ , quite a bit , in our total string for the same reason that we do here: This is because the \ has another use in Wild things in addition to the already discussed way like \7 ( where 7 would be for the 7th ( ) ). This other use of \ is to allow us to use characters as simple text which have a specific use in Wild things, so that Excel knows that we want to use them as their literal text string, rather than as Wild thing. Here it is needed for the first [ which we want to find.
( It follows that if we were looking for a \, then we would need to use \\ )
In our example string we find with this first Wild thing section the first [
Part 2 ([!\]=]@)
As noted the ( ) allows the string actually found in this Wild bit to be used later to the right via the reference \1.
As for this:
[!\]=]@ ( which could just as well be written [!=\]]@ )
We need a [ ] pair here, as within that is part of the Wild instructions for what to search for , and that has a further Wild instruction, @ , applied to that.
So in such a [ ] pair we would normally expect some specific wild stuff
Here the Wild thing, ! , means we search for any character other than those after included up to the closing tag ]. In our sample string , our first Wild bit found the first [ which now has added on any string at the next character if it is not a = or a ]
So this part of the second wild bit will find c in our sample string. If we had no other wild instructions here, then Excel would be content/ satisfied with that c. That would be joined on to the first [ found, so our result so far would be [c . In effect Excel stops going to the right when it is satisfied, and goes on to the next Wild bit. But we have another wild instruction here: The @ instructs to look for any amount of characters meeting the conditions before it, in this case the conditions in the [ ]. So the "Find" will stop finding characters when it no longer has a not = or a not ]. In our sample string the characters meeting the conditions are tacked on to a [ so will be will be [color. What [!\]=]@ has actually found and what the brackets ([!\]=]@) can be thought of as "holding" is color.
An alternative for @ would be {1,} which looks for between 1 and any amount of what is before it.
If we had used {1,4} or {2,4} instead of @ we would have so far for the complete found string [colo
If we had used {5,5} we would not have found a matching code tag word with less than 5 characters.
Parts 3 and 4 (*\])
This is unnecessarily in ( ) . *\] will do
The literature says * looks for any amount of anything. I think that is not strictly correct, or at least, explains it badly. It would appear to look for any amount of anything only until the next wild condition is met. That is why I chose to put it in ( ) just to demo the dependence, as it were. But this (*)(\]) or this *\] would work just as well (*)(\]).
Once again the \ is required for telling Excel that we want it to recognise ] as a string rather than a specific Wild thing. For this section , with my example string, I get from this complete 2 part Wild section
=green]
If our code tags were of the form like: [b]SomeBoldText[/b] , then the search would have "stopped before it started", as it were, as the ] would have "stopped" it
The combination of the 2 part Wild sections in this case would return just the single text character ]
Parts 5 and 6 (*)\[/
I contradict what I said in the last section slightly by using a ( ) around the * . Once again the * does nothing useful without the next wild bit to "stop" it. But what it does Find before it "stops" is what we actually need for Replace string. Hence I need a ( ) to reference what it Finds. This total Part 5 and part 6 section returns in our example
This is green[/
and the part referenced inside the ( ) is
This is green
Part 7 (\1)
As discussed already here the Wild thing, \1 , instructs to Find a string equal to that actual text found in the first ( ) if it is just before the next to be found ( which we will see in the next Part is the last character pair found, [/ ). The actual string found by [!\]=]@ in Part 2 , was , in our example the text color
Part 8 \]
Finally only a complete final Find attempt is successful if the last character is a ] , that is to say if the character after the text, in our example, the second color, is a ]
_...
The Final "Find"ed String for our example would be
[ & color & =Green & ] & This is green & [/ & color & ]
Simple code to use the Find and Replace discussed in the last Post
Here is a simple code to use the Find and Replace discussed in the last Post
The code should go in a code module in a WORD .docm File
Before rung the code, a text which includes BBCode Code Tags , should be selected in a Word document.
The Code makes a temporary File, "TempBBCodeCopy1.docx", holding the original selected text, then removes the BB Code Code Tags from the text and saves that as another temporary File, "TempNoBBCodeCopy2.docx"
Code:
Sub WegDaMitHansPaulAlan() ' http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=26030#p202223
Rem Code Part 1) make two temporary Word Files with and without BB Code
Rem 1) Copy selection to Clipboard
Selection.Copy
Rem 2) Make temporary WORD document
Documents.Add: ActiveDocument.Content.Paste
' 2b) Copy of Full Text with BB Code
Dim FullFilePathAndFullNameBBCode As String
ActiveDocument.SaveAs Filename:="TempBBCodeCopy1.docx", FileFormat:=wdFormatXMLDocument
Let FullFilePathAndFullNameBBCode = ActiveDocument.Path & "\" & ActiveDocument.Name
Rem 3) Replace Code tag pairs with what is in between
Selection.WholeStory
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting: .Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.MatchWildcards = True '
.Text = "[\[]([!=\]]@)(*\])(*)\[/(\1)\]" ' 8 sections, 4 identified with ( ) but I only need two ( )
.Replacement.Text = "\3" ' The third of the 4 sections identified with a ( )
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
' 3b) Copy of Colored Text without BB Code Code tags
Dim FullFilePathAndFullNameNoBBCode As String
ActiveDocument.SaveAs Filename:="TempNoBBCodeCopy2.docx", FileFormat:=wdFormatXMLDocument
Let FullFilePathAndFullNameNoBBCode = ActiveDocument.Path & "\" & ActiveDocument.Name
Rem 4) "Reset the "Find Replace Text Dialogue" "Thing" "
ActiveDocument.Select
Selection.WholeStory
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting: .Replacement.ClearFormatting: .Text = "": .Replacement.Text = "": .Forward = True: .Wrap = wdFindAsk: .Format = False: .MatchCase = False: .MatchWholeWord = False: .MatchKashida = False: .MatchDiacritics = False: .MatchAlefHamza = False: .MatchControl = False: .MatchWildcards = False: .MatchSoundsLike = False: .MatchAllWordForms = False '
End With
Rem 5) Option to close / kill document
ActiveDocument.Close (wdDoNotSaveChanges)
'Kill FullFilePathAndFullNameBBCode
'Kill FullFilePathAndFullNameNoBBCode
End Sub ' End Code Part 1)
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This not too relavent for this Post, just wanted to jot it down quick:
Code:
'EP Dim: For Object variables: Address location to a "pointer". That has all the actual memory locations (addresses) of the various property values , and it holds all the instructions what / how to change them , should that be wanted later. That helps to explain what occurs when passing an Object to a Call ed Function or Sub Routine By Val ue. In such an occurrence, VBA actually passes a copy of the pointer. So that has the effect of when you change things like properties on the local variable , then the changes are reflected in changes in the original object. (The copy pointer instructs how to change those values, at the actual address held in that pointer). That would normally be the sort of thing you would expect from passing by Ref erence. But as that copy pointer "dies" after the called routine ends, then any changes to the Addresses of the Object Properties in the local variable will not be reflected in the original pointer. So you cannot actually change the pointer.)
'EP Set: Fill or partially Fill: Setting to a Class will involve the use of an extra New at this code line. I will then have an Object referred to as an instance of a Class. At this point I include information on my Pointer Pigeon hole for a distinct distinguishable usage of an Object of the Class. For the case of something such as a Workbook this instancing has already been done, and in addition some values are filled in specific memory locations which are also held as part of the information in the Pigeon Hole Pointer. We will have a different Pointer for each instance. In most excel versions we already have a few instances of Worksheets. Such instances Objects can be further used., - For this a Dim to the class will be necessary, but the New must be omitted at Set. I can assign as many variables that I wish to the same existing instance
'_-So A variable in VBA is like the Link to the part of a URL string reducing size site where a few things about the actual Final site is informed about. This area in that site, like a pigion Hole to which the variable refers, ( the "pigeon hole" location address, and all its contents would be defined as the "Pointer". Amongst other things it has a link, a "Pointing part", pointing to actually where all the stuff is
Full Code "Belt and Braces” Word Find Replace & string manipulation
Full Code "Belt and Braces" in Word Find Replace & String Manipulation of initial Text String in Clipboard
This code is simply doing the two ways to remove BB Code code tag pairs from a copied to the clipboard Text from a Word document.
A check is then done Finally to see if the two raped from tags strings are the same.
I would not be surprised if a fail in the strings match just means that the second method, ( my long string manipulation way ) is getting it wrong.. Lol.. but never mind :) ***
***Edit: - like I just did: It will not work for nested BBCode code tags like
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This is OK
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:rolleyes:
That will do for this one, I guess I will have to do a recursion wonk to get a version working with nested BB Code Tag code tags,
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:rolleyes:
Ok. Here we go:
This code _..
Sub BBCodeCodeTagsWegDaMit2AlanHansPaul2()
_.. is mostly just splicing together codes
Sub WegDaMitHansPaulAlan()
and
Sub LongWayOfDoingIt()
along with adding a short section, Rem 10a) to check that the strings are the same. That is to say the
Full Story selection text from the modified ( removed BB Code code tags ), NewWordText for Code Part 1)
is
compared with the final RapedText from the long string manipulation Code part 2)
The code is all one code and broken down into this and the next three posts
Code part 1 of 4 parts ( all following parts to be copied directly under the preceding part in the same code module.
Code:
Sub BBCodeCodeTagsWegDaMit2AlanHansPaul2() ' http://www.excelforum.com/development-testing-forum/1086445-forum-tools-test-no-reply-needed-4.html#post4586680
' === Code assumes you have a Word File open, and have selected some Text
' One way is automating doing it in Word. "Wild Things. You make my heart sing. They make everything….. Groovy" '_- http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=26030#p202322
Rem 0) ' Just mucking about a bit with refering to Word documents
' Documents.Item("eileenslounge.docm").Activate
'Dim DocNme As String ' ' Prepares "Pointer" to a "Blue Print" (or Form, Questionaire not yet filled in, a template etc.)"Pigeon Hole" in Memory, sufficient in construction to house a piece of Paper with code text giving the relevant information for the particular Variable Type. VBA is sent to it when it passes it. In a Routine it may be given a particular "Value", or ("Values" for Objects). There instructions say then how to do that and handle(store) that(those). At Dim the created Paper is like a Blue Print that has some empty spaces not yet filled in. A String is a a bit tricky. The Blue Print code line Paper in the Pigeon Hole will allow to note the string Length and an Initial start memory Location. This Location well have to change frequently as strings of different length are assigned. Instructiions will tell how to do this. Theoretically a specilal value vbNullString is set to aid in quich checks.. But..http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/361246-vbnullstring-2.html#post44116
' Let DocNme = ActiveDocument.Name ' ' '_-So A variable in VBA is like the Link to the part of a URL string reducing size site where a few things about the actual Final site is informed about. This area in that site, like a pigion Hole to which the variable refers, ( the "pigeon hole" location address, and all its contents would be defined as the "Pointer". Amongst other things it has a link, a "Pointing part", pointing to actually where all the stuff is
Dim Doc As Document 'A variable in VBA is like the Link to the part of a URL string reducing size site where a few things about the actual Final site is informed about. This area in that site, like a pigion Hole to which the variable refers, ( the "pigeon hole" location address, and all its contents would be defined as the "Pointer". Amongst other things it has a link, a "Pointing part", pointing to actually where all the stuff is
Set Doc = ActiveDocument 'EP Set: Fill or partially Fill: Setting to a Class will involve the use of an extra New at this code line. I will then have an Object referred to as an instance of a Class. At this point I include information on my Pointer Pigeon hole for a distinct distinguishable usage of an Object of the Class. For the case of something such as a Workbook this instancing has already been done, and in addition some values are filled in specific memory locations which are also held as part of the information in the Pigeon Hole Pointer. We will have a different Pointer for each instance. In most excel versions we already have a few instances of Worksheets. Such instances Objects can be further used., - For this a Dim to the class will be necessary, but the New must be omitted at Set. I can assign as many variables that I wish to the same existing instance
Rem Code Part 1) make two temporary Word Files with and without BB Code
