One-at-a-Time Item Searching Technique Using EmEditor for Text Files

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• January 11, 2015 at 10:45 am #19768
  Mike Fur
  Participant
  e.g. I’d like to search the numbers in “Column 2” against “Column 1” and output what matches.
  I noticed that “multiline” function in EmEditor. However, I am not able to search the numbers in “Column 2” one by one but rather as a whole string.
  Just wondering if anyone has a solution for multiple search? Thanks,
  column 1 column 2
  1 1
  5 2
  8 3
  10 4
  25 5
  29 6
  31 7
  8
  9
  10
  11
  12
  13
  14
  15
  16
  17
  18
  19
  20
  21
  22
  23
  24
  25
  26
  27
  28
  29
  30
  31
  January 11, 2015 at 3:12 pm #19769
  Yutaka Emura
  Keymaster
  Hello Mike,
  I am not sure exactly what you want to do. Can you show me an example?
  Thank you!
  January 11, 2015 at 4:45 pm #19771
  Mike Fur
  Participant
  Hi Thanks for your instant response!
  This would be like a search/find function but it automatically search a list of items one by one in another file instead of enter each item manually.
  For instance:
  1st file:
  ID1 description
  1 absent
  2 present
  3 present
  4 absent
  5 absent
  6 present
  7 present
  8 present
  9 absent
  10 present
  11 present
  12 present
  13 present
  14 absent
  15 absent
  16 present
  17 present
  18 present
  19 present
  20 present
  21 present
  22 absent
  23 absent
  24 absent
  25 absent
  26 absent
  27 absent
  28 absent
  29 absent
  2nd file:
  ID2
  1
  5
  7
  3
  23
  5
  24
  12
  25
  2
  6
  11
  18
  16
  The results:
  1 absent
  5 absent
  7 present
  3 present
  23 absent
  5 absent
  24 absent
  12 present
  25 absent
  2 present
  6 present
  11 present
  18 present
  16 present
  January 11, 2015 at 9:10 pm #19772
  Yutaka Emura
  Keymaster
  Hello Mike,
  Thanks for explanation. This is like the JOINT feature of SQL, and I was thinking about this in future versions. Please wait for future versions.
  Meanwhile, you can write a macro like this:

doc1 = editor.Documents.Item(1);  
doc2 = editor.Documents.Item(2);  
editor.NewFile();  
doc3 = document;  
doc1.Activate();  
nLines1 = doc1.GetLines();  
doc2.Activate();  
nLines2 = doc2.GetLines();  
for(y2 = 1; y2 <= nLines2; y2++) {  
    doc2.Activate();  
    s2 = doc2.GetLine(y2);  
    if(s2 == "") continue;  
    doc1.Activate();  
    for(y1 = 1; y1 <= nLines1; y1++) {  
        s1 = doc1.GetCell(y1, 1, eeCellIncludeNone);  
        if(s1 == "") continue;  
        if(s1 == s2) {  
            sResult = doc1.GetCell(y1, 2, eeCellIncludeNone);  
            doc3.Activate();  
            doc3.writeln(s2 + "\t" + sResult);  
            break;  

Thanks!
January 12, 2015 at 7:29 am #19773
Mike Fur
Participant
Thanks, Yutaka
This would be a very useful function in various areas. Hope to use it in the future versions soon!
January 21, 2015 at 4:05 pm #19802
Yutaka Emura
Keymaster
Hello Mike,
This feature is added now:
https://www.emeditor.com/forums/topic/emeditor-v14-8-0-beta-1/
Join CSV feature.

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