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Hi, guyz.

I need to locate all occurrences of a given path in a source, say 'C:\TEMP2\xyplorer\', listing then. RegEx could be the fastest answer, but all solutions I found allow to match all 'x:\folder1\folder2', which is not what I need.

Then I need, in sequence, to replace that same string to another one. As this may or may not be achieved by the same RegEx method (but inverted), I thought it would be better place the request inline here.

>replace() is not a valid solution as it's being by far slower than regexreplace(), in such cases.

>>'C:\TEMP2\xyplorer\SUBFOLDER\(and so on, with or without files)' *may* or *may not* be of interest, so I'd like to have a method to deal with them, too, ie, reporting them AND replacing them in a later stage.

>>>those occurrences can be anywhere in source.

Thanks in advance.

Hi SkyFrontier, would "listfolder()" get you a step closer? It seems to be very fast. You can use flags to give the result in folders only or files or both.I just used it today when tweaking the theme.xys script. In this case I was only retrieving the ini files in a themes folder.Is the replacement string something that will be different in each case or different depending on the results of the folder/file lists? It's probably more complicated than I'm imagining, but could you simply use a "foreach" loop on the resultant list and an "if" statement to see if the each folder/file in the folder path contains what you're looking for and take the action...maybe using "rename" or "renameitem()".
Good luck,
Ken

Hello, Ken.

Reports on large folder structures, previously stored in log files or the actual 'live' thing needing mid-processing prior to writing final logs. Or redirecting.
listfolder() is at earlier stages.

I don't get it...

You want to list || replace a _specific_ path by <some kind of regex>?

bingo.
Thank you very much, highend!