SVG File search and replace string

[iceolated]

I need to read in a svg file, search for a specific string and replace it with a string I have stored as a variable, and save the new svg with a new file name.

can anyone give me a few suggestions on how to get started?

I am beginning to experiment with SVG:arser, but I fear that there is an extremely simple solution that I am over-complicating.

any suggestions/snippets would be most appreciated

 

[Zhris]

Hey,

I'm not familiar with SVG files, but from looking over the documentation for SVG:arser, I don't think its what you are looking for:

It takes XML as input and produces an SVG object as its output.

SVG:OM (

http://search.cpan.org/~ronan/SVG-2.50/lib/SVG/DOM.pm)

allows you to manipulate SVG files through DOM like methods, and seems like a good option.

It may just be easier to open the SVG file, read it line by line, search for a string, replace it with a new string if need be, write out to a new file.

Chris

 

[iceolated]

Here is a sample svg I will be working with. My problem is literally as simple as replacing 'DESCRIPTION' and 'SHEET' with different text that I have stored in an array and saving it as a new file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
<svg

height="3520"
width="5440"
>
<style
classname="EntityStyle"
id="2"
type="text/css"
>
font-size: 22; stroke: none }
text.function { fill: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22; stroke: none }

</style>
<g
id="3"
cb-objectname="Comments"
>
<rect
id="7a"
class="annotation"
height="0"
width="0"
x="3020"
y="1890"
/>
<line
classname="LineEntity"
id="8J"
class="annotation"
x1="3710"
x2="3710"
y1="1330"
y2="2730"
/>

<text
classname="TextEntity"
id="8a"
baseline-shift="0%"
class="annotation"
fill="#000000"
font-family="xxxx"
font-size="8"
x="390"
y="1370"
>
SHEET
</text>
<text
classname="TextEntity"
id="8s"
baseline-shift="0%"
class="annotation"
fill="#000000"
font-family="xxx"
font-size="8"
x="1270"
y="1370"
>
DESCRIPTION
</text>

</svg>

 

[Annihilannic]

Are they single lines that you are replacing? If so, it should be as simple as:

perl -pe 's/SHEET/NEW_SHEET/;s/DESCRIPTION/NEW_DESCRIPTION/;' original_file > new_file

Or is there more to it than that?

Annihilannic.

 

[iceolated]

The actual svg will be much larger. I will end up replacing the text that comes in-betwenn <text> </text> around 80 times per svg file and I will have about 100 different svgs

 

[Annihilannic]

That's fine... but is each individual replacement just a few words on a line, or a whole bunch of lines?

The following will do a similar thing to multiple files, keeping a backup of each (called originalfilename.bak):

perl -p -i.bak -e 's/SHEET/NEW_SHEET/;s/DESCRIPTION/NEW_DESCRIPTION/;' *.svg

Annihilannic.

 

[tsuji]

Did op notice what he posted is not even a well-formed svg? If it is not well-formed at that level, SVG:arser and SVG:OM won't help.