Hi Martin
Yes, a regex is described on the wiki https://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/tips?s[]=empty#checking_and_erasing_empty_objects_in_th2_files
I use it from time to time when I feel the need.
It does not find empty scraps however, probably because our empty scrap definitions are quite busy. For example;
scrap IH-InceptionPlan-s2 -projection plan -station-names ih @ih -author 2011.02.23 "A Nonymous" -scale [-128.0 -128.0 10718.5511811 -128.0 0.0 0.0 275.5024 0.0 m]
endscrap
If anyone is clever enough to improve the regex, please do.
Although, because the empty scraps usually come from the particular way I use TopParser, there is almost always a maximum of one per th2 file. It is always at the end of the file, so using a semi-automated method of finding them within the file is unnecessary, if one is disciplined enough to check each file when the drawing is ‘finished’, or if, as there is now, a feature in Therion that (indirectly) highlights their existence.
However adding a Therion log entry for each empty object would be helpful.
Bruce
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