Text search in R14 file

Is there a way I can search for a specific text within an opened Acad
R14 file? Maybe a lisp routine?


JPC

 

Do you need a selection set including all these text entities or do you want
to zoom to this text or do you want to replace this text or what ...?

Juergen

 

Jurgen,
What I would like to be able to do is to zoom to the text.

JPC

 

That'll take a lisp. The text searching function will be pretty simple, and
I've got a routine on my site called "check4square" (wonder what it does?)
that has the zooming part of the code in it that you can pilfer.

 

Michael,
I am a novice. I remember using lisp routine years ago. I have
forgotten what little I knew. I copied your chech4square lisp to word
since it was to big for notepad. What extension do I need on the file
and then how do I compile it into a routine? Also I remember loading a
file into the Acad directory so I could run my routines from the
command line in an earlier version. Last how do I change your
check4square routine so I can zoom to a particular text which will
usually be a sequence of numbers in a character format.


JPC

 

You don't have to. Autocad will run it as is.

In old versions it was acad.lsp You should look in the help on running
lisps.

That's the $64 question. I haven't got time to do it for you, but you would
have to sub out the section of code that looks for lines that aren't square
for a chunk of code that tests for the content of text entities matching
your parameters. If I were you I'd have the routine require the user to
enter the text sought, so you can use it for other stuff later.

Maybe with some luck you can find another routine that looks for text, and
mash them together.