Replacements in dependent tiers

[remeig...@gmail.com]

Good day, 
Thank you very much for the fast reply. I really appreciate your help. 

Now I understand what the +1 is for, I saw it in other commands used by 
other people but I didn't understand it. 

Regarding to the specific command "chstring +t%dep +s"$code-1*" 
"$new-code*"", using the * would keep with no changes all the words 
contained in that *? So would this mean that I can replace specific parts 
of the old codes using this specific command? 

Another question that just came to me now is that: is there any way to use 
exceptions in the codes, such as changing a code that contains specific 
words except for one word? I'm not sure if I'm expressing myself right. 

Example: chstring +t%dep +s"$code-*want-to-change-EXCEPT 
'SPECIFIC-WORD-I-DON'T-WANT-TO-CHANGE" "$new-code"

Thank you for offering giving the exact command lines. I believe for now it 
is okay, I will practice with the command before and I will let you know in 
the case we need more help. 

Best regards, 
--
Remei González Manzanero

El lunes, 24 de enero de 2022 a las 0:01:48 UTC+1, Leonid Spektor escribió:

> Hi,
>
> I will start with last question. The reason CHSTRING command outputs 
> ".chstr.cex" filenames is so that you can check the output to see if 
> changes were done correctly and nothing went wrong. If you really want to 
> take a chance then add +1 option to the command line. Otherwise, after you 
> verify that only right string were replaced correctly you can use command 
> "ren -f *.chstr.cex *.cha" to change all output filenames to .cha.
>
> For the first question CHSTRING command works on word bases by default. 
> This means that the string that you want to replace has to completely match 
> the code in the data file. For example, if you have codes 
> "$code-1want-to-change" and "$code-2want-to-change", then following 
> commands will replace only code "$code-1want-to-change":
>
> chstring +t%dep +s"$code-1want-to-change" "$new-code"
> chstring +t%dep +s"$code-1*" "$new-code*"
>
> Please notice the "+t%dep" option. It will guarantee that only codes found 
> on %dep tier will be replace. The same string on other tiers will not be 
> changed.
>
> If you want a more detailed example, then you can email your sample file 
> to me directly along with a list of codes you want to replace and I will 
> give you the exact command line(s).
>
>
> Leonid. 
>
> On Jan 23, 2022, at 15:06, remeig... at gmail.com <remeig... at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> Dear all, 
>
> We are trying to find a way *to replace several codes* we used in a 
> dependent tier in many files, in order to create new files with these new 
> codes. 
>
> As far as I know, the CHSTRING command with a *.cut *file containing a 
> list of all the replacements can be used for this purpose, but I’m afraid 
> of going wrong and replacing strings that we are not supposed to, specially 
> in the case of complex codes containing characters like : or – (although I 
> believe they’re not considered metacharacters in this case). 
>
> I would go with something like: 
>
> CHSTRING %dep “$code-Iwant-to-change” “resulting-code”.
>
> Is there any other way to do it or is there any unique option I should use 
> in the case of using CHSTRING in dependent tiers? 
>
> Furthermore, I noticed the next: when using CHSTRING command it gives me 
> back as an output a .chstr.cex file format. Is there any way to avoid this? 
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
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>
> Remei González Manzanero 
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