Flip words in textfile OR make it work anyway?

[Cal Alendo Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 21 Points: 77Rank: Member]

1.) Is there a way to flip words from a textfile.txt ?

From:	To:
Ärna:Tänka Ärnade:Tänkte Ärnar:Tänker	Tänka:Ärna Tänkte:Ärnade Tänker:Ärnar

I  use this in the script, but I want to make it able to revert what was made, I did flip “$find(?=\W)”, $replace” to “$replace(?=\W)”, $find”, but it slows down in the way (its about 3000 words its checking) and does sometimes crash and gives wierd output.

2.) Or is it possible to solve it some other way to get this to work without flipping the words in the textfile.txt?

$ord = Get-Content $Path\textfile.xml -encoding utf8
Get-Content $Path\textfile.xml -encoding utf8 | foreach {
$find, $replace = $_ -split ':'
((Get-Content $FileBrowser.FileName -encoding utf8) -creplace "$find(?=\W)", $replace) | Set-Content $FileBrowser.FileName -encoding utf8

[Cal Alendo Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 21 Points: 77Rank: Member]

I know “[array]::Reverse()” maybe used? But I can’t figure out how.

But how do I make the split between the ‘:’ ? Also some have two words after the ‘:’ otherwise it’s just this i got. And it doe not what I want.

$words = Get-Content -Path c:\textfile.txt

$results = foreach ($word in $words){$name -replace ‘(\w+) (\w+)’,‘$2 $1’}

$results | Out-File c:\done.txt

[Matt Bloomfield]

Can be done on one line but I’ve split it at the | for readability on the forum.

PowerShell

Get-Content E:\Temp\dictionary.txt | foreach {$_ -replace $_,(($_ -split ':')[1,0] -join ':') | Out-File E:\Temp\reversedDictionary.txt -Append}

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Get-Content E:\Temp\dictionary.txt |     foreach {$_ -replace $_,(($_ -split ':')[1,0] -join ':') |         Out-File E:\Temp\reversedDictionary.txt -Append}

 

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by Matt Bloomfield. Reason: Formatting

[Cal Alendo Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 21 Points: 77Rank: Member]

Thank you, that did the trick.

[random commandline Participant Topics: 5 Replies: 349 Points: 632Rank: Major Contributor]

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$result = Get-Content .\name.txt | ForEach-Object { $name = $_ -split ':' "{0}:{1}" -f $name[1],$name[0] } Add-Content -Path .\newname.txt -Value $result

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$result = Get-Content .\name.txt | ForEach-Object {         $name = $_ -split ':'         "{0}:{1}" -f $name[1],$name[0] } Add-Content -Path .\newname.txt -Value $result

[Rob Simmers]

Another method is using Reverse:

PowerShell

$names = @" Ärna:Tänka Ärnade:Tänkte Ärnar:Tänker "@ -split [environment]::NewLine foreach ($name in $names) { $arr = $name -split ":" [array]::Reverse($arr) [pscustomobject]@{ 'OriginalName' = $name 'ReverseName' = $arr -join ':' } }

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$names = @" Ärna:Tänka Ärnade:Tänkte Ärnar:Tänker "@ -split [environment]::NewLine   foreach ($name in $names) {     $arr = $name -split ":"     [array]::Reverse($arr)       [pscustomobject]@{        'OriginalName'  = $name        'ReverseName'   = $arr -join ':'     } }

Output:

PowerShell

OriginalName ReverseName ------------ ----------- Ärna:Tänka Tänka:Ärna Ärnade:Tänkte Tänkte:Ärnade Ärnar:Tänker Tänker:Ärnar

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OriginalName  ReverseName ------------  ----------- Ärna:Tänka    Tänka:Ärna Ärnade:Tänkte Tänkte:Ärnade Ärnar:Tänker  Tänker:Ärnar

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by Rob Simmers.

[Cal Alendo Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 21 Points: 77Rank: Member]

Thank you all for the answers! I have tried all they do the work!

For the other question:

I do replace the first word with the second word from the textfile in another textfile that contains a mixture of many words. Is it possible to do replace the second word with the first word in the textfile? I did put up a code I use but it does not work so good, crashes and does weird things with the textfile it’s replacing word in.

(It’s related watching this two alternatives, i can’t figure t out completely why its buggy and does not work that way, cause it works with the first word and replacing with the other)

[Rob Simmers Participant Topics: 17 Replies: 1951 Points: 3,988Rank: Community Hero]

Glad the samples are working as expected. As you did before, provide examples of the text files and expected outcome.

[AdminOfThings45 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 96 Points: 441Rank: Contributor]

Using -replace, you can do the following:

PowerShell

(Get-Content file.txt -encoding utf8) -replace '^([^:]+):(.*)$','$2:$1' | Set-Content file.txt -encoding UTF8

1 2	(Get-Content file.txt -encoding utf8) -replace '^([^:]+):(.*)$','$2:$1' |     Set-Content file.txt -encoding UTF8

[Cal Alendo Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 21 Points: 77Rank: Member]

Rob Simmers wrote:

Glad the samples are working as expected. As you did before, provide examples of the text files and expected outcome.

(I solved it, read under the picture…)

I did try a txt-file used only 1 word. and it ended up just after a few seconds to a gigantic text-file of 284 mb and it didn’t make all. And the output is really hard to open. But something is wrong. The word shown here is not even in the text-file.

However, After a good night sleep and woken fresh like a cucumber I did find out that I didn’t do a # to inactivate the line used before so I guesse it had some problem with that. So now everything is working, pheuw!

Thank you all for your help!

 

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