Find/Replace Regex 2.0

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Regex-powered Find/Replace with presets

This script provides a comprehensive user interface in Adobe Illustrator to search and replace text using regular expressions (regex). It enables precise text manipulation across multiple text frames with advanced pattern matching capabilities that go far beyond Illustrator's built-in Find and Replace functionality.

What Makes This Script Special?

• Regex Pattern Matching: Find and replace text using powerful JavaScript regular expressions with support for complex patterns, character classes, quantifiers, and capture groups.

• Interactive Navigation: Automatically selects and zooms to each match.

• Preset Management: Save, update, and delete named search/replace presets for frequently used patterns.

• Special Characters Support: Full support for Illustrator special character codes (Em Dash, En Dash, various spaces, tabs, returns) and Unicode characters notation.

• Character Insertion Menu: Click the @ symbol next to Find/Replace fields to browse and insert special characters from a convenient dropdown menu.

• Advanced Formatting: Apply character styles or individual formatting attributes (font, size, color, tracking, leading, case, baseline shift) to replaced text.

• Capture Groups: Use capture groups in your regex patterns and reference them in replacements using $1, $2, $3, etc.

• Scope Control: Constrain searches to specific artboards or layers, with options to include or exclude selected items.

• Locked/Hidden Items: Optionally include locked and hidden text frames in your search.

• Zoom Control: Integrated zoom controls (+/-) and adjustable zoom percentage for comfortable viewing of matches.

Jean-Claude Tremblay – Services Proficiografik

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Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA-4.0

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