Search for text fields only containing 2 decimals places

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Hi All, I am trying to find a way to search an entire model containing approx. 100,000 Text Fields and highlight the location of where the Text Fields only containing 2 decimals places occur.

Does any one know a way of doing this? I presume it is possible to script, but unfortunately I am not a coder…

Any help greatly appreciated! Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Michael

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This can be done with a regex pattern.

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import re

id = rs.GetObjects("Select Text", filter = 512, preselect= False)

pattern = '\.[0-9]{2}'

for num in id:
    string = rs.TextObjectText(num)
    if re.findall(pattern, string):
        print string
        print num
        rs.SelectObject(num)

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You can type _EditPythonScript and paste the script above into the Python Editor.

Or create a button with the following code:

! _-RunPythonScript (

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import re

id = rs.GetObjects("Select Text", filter = 512, preselect= False)

pattern = '\.[0-9]{2}'

for num in id:
    string = rs.TextObjectText(num)
    if re.findall(pattern, string):
        print string
        print num
        rs.SelectObject(num)

)
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This will pick up longer strings (like the 99.999 in your example). Depending on the nature of the string, you might get away with an end-string marker

pattern = '\.[0-9]{2}$'

or, if there can be characters after the decimals, include an alternate pattern which tests for delimiters such as space, +/-, punctuation. Need to check if that’s an issue with the OP.

I’d also check with the OP whether he actually wants 2 or less decimals…

Regards
Jeremy

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This is awesome! Exactly what I needed.
Thanks a lot Martin!

Cheers,
Michael

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5

You’re right!

I was rushing this in between other work and the 99.999 was even selected in my screenshot and I didn’t notice :man_facepalming: