Is there a way of using Apple Shortcuts to find and replace text with in a text string.
For example: I use inline images in Markdown documents.
The image file name might be something like:
“The image I want to display.jpg”
For the Markdown preview to display this image it needs to be in the form:
“The%20image%20I%20want%20to%20display.jpg”
So I am trying to write a Shortcut that will take to original file name from the Clipboard and replace every “space” with “%20”
Can this be done.
By the way, I am Ok with the reading the Clipboard content into a variable and copying the variable back to the Clipboard. It’s just the find and replace I’m having difficulty with.
All have some free Shortcuts and some behind their memberships.
I haven’t used any of the listed resources recently, but they are generally positively mentioned.
There are also a number of reddits for shortcuts (iOS, macOS, Advanced) but I have not looked at any of these.
A lot of Shortcuts is just trying it and looking through the list of available actions in the editor or the user guide or looking at some of the Shortcuts available in the Gallery in the Shortcuts app.
If you get stuck at any stage, post a link to the Shortcut as far as you have got on here or the Automators Discourse forum (the podcast has finished but the forum still exists with some other awesomely helpful users) and usually people will try to help.
Hi! I do a great deal of writing in Markdown. If the document has inline images then I name the image files similar to the document. That way when viewed in Finder or Files they all appear together. For example:
