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   does anyone know of a way to do the following:

in a 
drawing, there are many text strings containing a numerical value.  i 
want to change all the text strings with a single command or series of 
commands (without having to individually change them one by one) so that
 the original values are retained, but the numbers (numeric text 
string) are now enclosed inside parentheses.
 for example:   123.45  becomes  (123.45),  543.21  becomes  (543.21), 234.56  becomes (234.56), etc.

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rmmllla Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 05.Mar.2011 Location: United States Using: autocad2009 Status: Offline Points: 1	Topic: modifying text globally Posted: 05.Mar.2011 at 03:16
	does anyone know of a way to do the following: in a drawing, there are many text strings containing a numerical value. i want to change all the text strings with a single command or series of commands (without having to individually change them one by one) so that the original values are retained, but the numbers (numeric text string) are now enclosed inside parentheses. for example: 123.45 becomes (123.45), 543.21 becomes (543.21), 234.56 becomes (234.56), etc.

CarlB Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 16.Oct.2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 321	Posted: 05.Mar.2011 at 07:27
	That calls for a lisp routine, or some programming aproach. Don't know of a way just using commands, such as "FIND", which is used for global text modifying. Here's a simple one, that adds a prefix & paretheses to text entities: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=812007&page=22 Some more robust ones here, but seem to be for just a prefix or suffix, so you have to run it twice- http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?1608-Lisp-to-add-a-prefix-or-suffix-to-selected-text

Vladimir Michl Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Arkance Systems CZ Joined: 26.Jul.2007 Location: Czech Republic Using: Autodesk software Status: Offline Points: 2098	Posted: 06.Mar.2011 at 23:06
	Our srxText utility can do this (see Download). Use its the "Regular expressions" option and: search text: \([0-9\.]+\) replace text: (\1)
	Vladimir Michl (moderator) ARKANCE - https://arkance.world - Autodesk Platinum Partner

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