JPH023860A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To substitute a document data for the character of desired attribute even when the character of the different attribute is mixed, and to widely shorten the working time of editing by searching the character according to the designated contents of the attribute, and substituting the character with the designated attribute. CONSTITUTION:Document data has a character code corresponding to each character and an attribute code corresponding to the character code. When a CPU decides whether the condition 'to substitute the attribute of a character string to be substituted' is designated or not, and when it is not designated, the CPU makes the attribute data of the character string to be substituted same as the attribute data of the first character of a coincident character string. Then, in a case that the attribute data of the coincident character string is substituted for the attribute data of the character string to be substituted, or in a case that designation 'to substitute the attribute of the character string to be substituted' is designated previously, the CPU deletes the attribute data corresponding to the coincident character string, and inserts the attribute data of the character string to be substituted. Thus, the time of the editing work can be shortened.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing device having a character string search and replacement function.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, some spending devices have a search and replace function for strings. In such document processing devices, uppercase and uppercase alphabetic characters are extracted from the created document.
It is possible to specify whether or not to search for alphabetic characters to be searched, ignoring lowercase letters, and to replace the searched characters with desired alphabetic characters according to the designation result.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the conventional document processing device described above only has the function of specifying whether or not to search by ignoring uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet. Search/replacement processing cannot be performed when characters of multiple character types (for example, Gothic, Gothic Bold, Gothic Italic, etc.) and characters of different character sizes coexist.

Therefore, in the above-mentioned conventional document processing device, when characters of different character types and characters of different character sizes are mixed for the same character in the span,
When replacing each of these characters with a desired character, a search and replacement instruction must be made for each corresponding character, which has the disadvantage of taking time to edit and extremely low editing efficiency. Ta.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device that can eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, shorten the time required for editing work, and improve work efficiency.

[5! Means and operation for solving the problem] The present invention has the following features:
a designation means for specifying whether or not the attribute of the character to be searched is to be used as a condition when searching for the character to be searched; It comprises a search means for searching from among the characters, and an attribute specifying means for specifying the attributes of the specific character when converting the character searched by the search means into a specific character, and the characters to be searched are: The character is searched according to the attribute content specified by the specifying means, and is further replaced with a specific character having the attribute specified by the attribute specifying means.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of a document processing device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document processing VtW1 according to the present invention. In the figure, the keyboard/
The mouse control unit 11 controls input of various data, commands, etc. from the keyboard 12 and the mouse 13 connected to the keyboard 12.

Chuo J! ! The device (hereinafter referred to as CPLJ) 10 controls the keyboard/mouse control section 1 by a program corresponding to a command inputted from the keyboard/mouse control section 11.
1. It performs overall time-sharing control of each control unit such as the disk control unit 14 and display control unit 15 and the real memory 16, and executes predetermined calculations, processing, etc.

The external storage bag @ (disk device) 17 stores document data, programs, files of a group of dictionaries for kana-kanji conversion consisting of a hierarchical structure, data contents of font configurations, bitmaps for displaying each of the above-mentioned fonts, and the like.

The real memory 16 consists of a RAM, and stores an operating program for operating the system, a group of commands and a group of data input from the keyboard 12 or mouse 13, etc., and conversion dictionary files and font configuration data read from the disk device f17. It also stores data such as display bitmaps for each of the above fonts. It has attribute data corresponding to .

The display control section 15 controls the CRT 18 to display pit map data and the like against the font configuration data in the real memory 16.

As shown in FIG. 2, the document data includes a character code corresponding to each character and attribute data corresponding to the character code.

The CPU 10 described above stores the document data on the CRT 1.
8, data regarding the position information of each character is created as control data.

In the embodiment, control data is stored in correspondence to position information, and character codes and attribute data are stored in correspondence to the control data.

As shown in FIG. 3, the CPU 10 determines whether there is a request for search/W1 conversion processing for character strings in the document (step 100), and if there is a request, executes the search/replacement processing. Step 101) If there is no request, then it is determined whether or not there is an instruction indicating the end of the search 7w1 conversion process.Step 102) If the result of this judgment is that there is an instruction indicating the end, the search is performed. /e1 conversion processing ends.

Note that when the CPU 10 finishes the processing in step 101, if there is no instruction indicating the end of the search/replacement processing in step 102, the CPU 10 returns to step 100 and executes the steps from this step onward.

FIG. 4 shows the search/replacement process in step 101 described above in detail.

First, CPU O sets search conditions and replacement conditions specified by the operator's predetermined operation of the keyboard 12 (or mouse 13) (step 200).

First, the search conditions are ``character string to search'', ``whether to consider character attributes when determining whether characters match'', and [ignoring case differences if characters are alphabetic. Specify three points: ``Are you willing to do so?''

In addition, the replacement conditions include "character string to be replaced" and "Which character attribute should be used for replacement, the character string found by search or the character string specified for replacement?"
, specify two points.

Next, the CPU 10 sets pointers indicating the document data and search data at the beginning of each data (step 201), and saves the pointers indicating the document data as the search start position pointer (step 202).
).

Then, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the pointer set in the document data is set on the code indicating the end of the document (step 203). If the pointer is set on the document data excluding the code indicating the search data, then whether or not the pointer set in the search data is set on the code indicating the end of the character string corresponding to this search data. (step 204).

In step 204, if the pointer set in the search data is on the character string of the search data, the CPU 10 selects the character code included in the search data and the character code included in the document data (search data). target character)
It is determined whether the character codes match (step 205).

If the character codes match here, CPU10
Further, in step 20, it is determined whether or not the search condition "also targets character attributes" is specified.
6) If not specified, it is determined that the search target character satisfies the search conditions and matches, and the pointers of the document data and the search data are moved forward by one (step 207).

Note that if the condition "also target character attributes" is specified in step 206, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the character attributes match in addition to the character code (step 208); In this case, it is determined that the character to be searched satisfies the search condition and the process proceeds to step 207. Conversely, if the character to be searched does not match, that is, the character to be searched does not satisfy the search condition. for,
The pointer at the search start position is moved forward by one, and this point is reset as the pointer to the document data, and the pointer for the search data is returned to the beginning (step 209).

On the other hand, if the character codes do not match in step 205, the CPU 10 determines whether a search condition of "ignoring" the difference between uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet is specified (step 210); If no search conditions are specified, it is determined that the search target character does not satisfy the search conditions, and step 20 is performed.
Proceed to step 9, and if search conditions are specified on the contrary,
It is determined whether the character to be searched and the character included in the search data represent the same alphabetic character (step 211). Here, the CPU 10 proceeds to step 206 described above if the alphabet characters match, and proceeds to step 209 described above if the letters do not match. In addition, cPUlo indicates that the target string has been found if the pointer set in the search data is set on the code indicating the end of the string corresponding to this search data in step 204 described above. , performs the @ conversion process (step 212), and furthermore, when this replacement process is finished, moves the document data pointer forward one step, saves this as the search start position, and changes the search data pointer to Return to the beginning (step 213).

Note that when the CPU 10 finishes any one of the steps 207, 209, and 213 described above, the CPU 10 returns to step 203 and executes the steps after this step. That is, document data and search data are matched.

In this case, the CPU 10 ends the search/replacement process when the pointer to the document data is set on the code indicating the end of the document in step 203.

Next, FIG. 5 shows in detail the replacement process in step 212 described above.

In FIG. 5, the CPLI 10 first deletes the character code corresponding to the matched character string in the document data from the position information of the matched character string (step 212-1);
The character code of the replacement character string is inserted in place of the deleted character code (step 212-2).

Next, the CPU 10 determines whether or not "Replace with attributes of replacement character string" is specified as a replacement condition (step 212-3), and here, if "Replace with attributes of replacement character string" is specified. If not, that is, if "Replace with the attributes of the matched string" was specified, the attribute data of the replacement string will be the same as the attribute data of the first character of the matched string. (Step 212-4).

Then, when the CPU 10 ends the step 212-4, that is, when the attribute data of the replaced character string is replaced with the attribute data of the matched character string, or in the step 212-3, "replace with the attribute of" is specified, the attribute data corresponding to the matched character string is deleted, and the attribute data of the replacement character string is inserted (step 212-5).

Next, an example of the replacement processing of the document processing apparatus will be explained based on the drawings of FIGS. 6 to 11.

First, a case will be described in which a search/replacement process is performed on a document as shown in FIG. 6 by specifying the search conditions and replacement conditions shown below.

[Search condition 1] Search content: Mincho (Mincho 12 points) Ignore character attributes Ignore uppercase/lowercase letters [Replacement condition 11 Replacement content: Mincho (Mincho 12 points) Also change character attributes Search condition 1 above , Replacement Condition 1, the document processing device searches for the character string "Mincho", ignoring character attributes, and replaces the searched character string with "Mincho".
Replace with the Mincho 12 point character string and the character attributes of the replacement character string. As a result, the three character strings "Mincho" with different point sizes are replaced with the Mincho 12-point character string "Mincho" as shown in FIG.

Further, a case will be described in which a search/It conversion process is performed on a sentence as shown in FIG. 6 by specifying the search conditions and replacement conditions shown below.

[Search condition 2] Search content: Mincho (Mincho 12 points) Ignore character attributes Ignore uppercase/lowercase letters [Replacement condition 2] Replacement content: Mincho (Mincho 12 points) The above search does not change character attributes In each of Condition 2 and Replacement Condition 2, the document processing device executes processing according to each of these conditions. In this case, since the replacement character string is specified with the condition that the character attributes are not changed, the replacement character string is replaced in accordance with the character attributes of the searched character string.

In other words, the three character strings "Mincho" with different point sizes are 10 points, 14 points, and 18 points, depending on the character attributes of each character string, as shown in Figure 8.
The character string "Mincho".

will be replaced with

Furthermore, we will explain the case where search/replace processing is performed on a document as shown in Figure 9 by specifying the search conditions and replacement conditions shown below [Search condition 31 Search content: ABG (Gothic 14 point) characters. Ignore uppercase/lowercase letters including attributes [@conversion condition 3] Replacement content: ABC (Mincho 18 points, with underline) Also change character attributes In search condition 3 and replacement condition 3 above, the expenditure processing device is fABcJ Search for the Gothic 14 point character string including the character attributes, ignoring the difference between uppercase and lowercase letters, and search for the searched character string in Mincho 18 point rABcJ with the character attributes of the replacement string. Replaced with an underlined string.

In other words, each of the searched character strings ABC (Gothic 14 points), abc (Gothic 14 points), and AbC<Gothic 14 points) is determined by the attributes of the characters in the replacement string, as shown in Figure 10. , will be replaced with the underlined character string rABcJ in 18 point tomorrow morning.

Next, a case will be described in which a search/replacement process is performed on a document as shown in FIG. 9 by specifying the search conditions and replacement conditions shown below.

[Search condition 4] Search content: ABC (Gothic 14 points) Ignore character attributes, distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters [Replacement condition 4] W1 conversion content: XYZ (Mincho 18 points, with underline) Do not change character attributes In the above search condition 4 and replacement condition 4, document processing Hf
ff searches for the character string rABcJ, ignoring the character attributes and distinguishing between uppercase and lowercase letters, and replaces the searched character string with the character string "XYZ" without changing the character attributes.

That is, the searched character strings ABC (Gothic 14 points), ABC (Gothic Bold 14 points), A
As shown in Figure 11, each BC (Gothic Italic 14 Point) character string is divided into Gothic 14 Point, Gothic Bold 14 Point, Gothic Italic 14 Point [] according to the attributes of the searched character string.
Replaced with the character string XYZJ. Note that rXYZJ is underlined in the replacement content,
Since the replacement condition that the character attributes are not changed is specified, the replacement character string has the following as shown in Figure 11.
No underline is added.

Note that in the above embodiment, all matching character strings in the document are replaced, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be replaced as follows.

In other words, it is possible to perform only a search and display the number of matches, to have the user confirm whether or not to replace each string when a matching string is found, or to specify in advance the number of strings to be converted (replaced). They can also be combined.

Further, in the above embodiment, the search range is the entire span from the beginning of the document, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the search range is from the position where the mouse or cursor is displayed to the rest of the document. It is also possible to specify the search range using a mouse or the like.

According to the above embodiment, even when characters with different attributes for the same character, such as violet character type, different character size, upper case and lower case alphabet, etc., are mixed in the document, By setting search conditions and replacement conditions, characters with different attributes can be efficiently replaced with characters with the same attribute in a short time.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, according to the present invention, characters to be searched are searched according to the attribute contents specified by the specifying means, and characters having the attributes specified by the attribute specifying means are searched for. Even if the same character with different attributes coexists in a document, these characters with different attributes can be unified and replaced with the desired ffi character at once, making editing work easier. It is possible to significantly shorten the working time and to greatly improve the working efficiency.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an expenditure processing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of document data, and FIGS. Flowcharts showing the operation of the search/M conversion process of the document processing device shown in FIG. 1, FIGS. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of the search/replace processing of the document processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, respectively. 10... Central processing unit (CPU), 11... Keyboard/mouse control unit, 12... Keyboard, 13...
Mouse, 14...Disk control unit 0, 15...Display control unit, 16...Real memory, 17...Disk device, 18...Display device. Figure 2: Figure 5: 11,110 points in the morning, 14 points in the morning. 18 points tomorrow morning. Figure 6 Mincho 10 points, Mincho 14 points. India. Figure 7 Mincho 18 points Figure 3 Mincho 14 points. Mincho 18 points. 8th cause

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a document processing device that searches for a predetermined character in a document and converts the searched character into a specified character, a specifying means for specifying whether or not to be used as a condition for searching; a search means for searching the document for characters to be searched according to the specified result of the specifying means; and a character searched by the search means. 1. A document processing device comprising: an attribute specifying means for specifying an attribute of a specific character when converting the text into a specific character.