Cut and Paste Question

[Baron von Hax]

Not sure if this is meant to be in the dev seciton but I have a question that I can't find an understandable answer.
I was wondering if there was any way to cut and paste large sections of text regardless of there being variables involved.
For example:

    "gEApp_BislA": {
        "artist": "Tuxedo",
        "songname": "Watch The Dance",
        "length": 277
    },
    "7rRNQ_EH4d8": {
        "artist": "Nekrogoblikon",
        "songname": "Bells and Whistles",
        "length": 251
    },

How would I cut and paste "length": 251 to before "songname": "Bells and Whistles" but with all instances of length without changing each variable?
Thanks for any help :)

[Kogitsune]

Using your input, I used this:

z = x:gsub( [["songname": "(.-)",
.-"length": (%d+).-}]], function( a, b )
	return [["length": ]] .. b .. ",\n\t\t" .. [["songname": "]] .. a .. '"}'
end )

To get this:

	"gEApp_BislA": {
		"artist": "Tuxedo",
		"length": 277,
		"songname": "Watch The Dance"},
	"7rRNQ_EH4d8": {
		"artist": "Nekrogoblikon",
		"length": 251,
		"songname": "Bells and Whistles"},

( Assuming you wanted to do this in-game or something )

You could honestly do it with any Lua console as everything there is vanilla.

[Baron von Hax]

[QUOTE=Kogitsune;47376185]Using your input, I used this:

z = x:gsub( [["songname": "(.-)",
.-"length": (%d+).-}]], function( a, b )
	return [["length": ]] .. b .. ",\n\t\t" .. [["songname": "]] .. a .. '"}'
end )

To get this:

	"gEApp_BislA": {
		"artist": "Tuxedo",
		"length": 277,
		"songname": "Watch The Dance"},
	"7rRNQ_EH4d8": {
		"artist": "Nekrogoblikon",
		"length": 251,
		"songname": "Bells and Whistles"},

( Assuming you wanted to do this in-game or something )

You could honestly do it with any Lua console as everything there is vanilla.[/QUOTE]
I was aiming more for using Notepad++ :P

[_Divine]

regex

[Baron von Hax]

[QUOTE=_Divine;47376316]regex[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I saw something that mentioned regex but I didn't understand how it worked or what to do xD

[_Divine]

Use this:
Find: ((.*)\"song(.*))\n((.*)(\"length\")(.*))
Replace: \4,\n\1

To remove the comma after the new 'songname' lines, run this:
Find: (.*)(\"songname\")(.*)(,)
Replace: \1\2\3

[B]Edit:[/B] Just run this once to avoid doing two separate ones:
Find: (.*)(\"songname\")(.*)(,)\n((.*)(\"length\")(.*))
Replace: \5,\n\1\2\3