Forum:Search and replace with Pywikipediabot



Hi,

I am trying to search and replace sections of several lines with "replace.py". Let's say for example the page content is first second third and I want to replace the first two lines with "new" so the new content is new third

How can I do this? I tried something like replace.py -multiline -page:mypage "^first$^second$" "new" but that doesn't work.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance -- Weas-El 18:35, June 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm referring Randomtime here. He's who I go to for pybot questions. Rappy 19:16, June 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * C:\Pybot>replace.py -page:FindReplace -regex "first\r\nsecond" "new" works a treat "\r\n" are the escape characters for a new line in the rejex. --  Random Time  19:44, June 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * Great, I'll try that, thanks. -- Weas-El 20:19, June 14, 2012 (UTC)