Minor updates including a custom replacement_delimiter

README.md

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 Custom nodes for ComfyUI that provide text/string manipulation capabilities. Particularly useful for modifying text from LLM outputs (Ollama, Claude.ai, OpenAI ChatGPT), such as prompts or image-to-text description results.
 
-![stringstrip](stringstrip.png)![stringreplace](stringreplace.png)
-
 ## Features
 - Remove or replace text, words, numbers in input strings
 - Handle multi-word strings (partial sentences/phrases)
@@ -11,7 +9,9 @@ Custom nodes for ComfyUI that provide text/string manipulation capabilities. Par
 - Whole string matching option
 
 ## String Strip Node
-Removes specified strings from input text. Each line should contain the string to be searched. The string can contain multiple words. To match individual words/strings place on seperate lines.
+Removes specified strings from input text. Each line should contain the string to be searched. The string can contain multiple words. To match individual words/strings place on seperate lines.  
+![stringstrip](stringstrip.png)
+
 
 ### Inputs
 - **`input_string`**: The string or text to process
@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@ Removes specified strings from input text. Each line should contain the string t
 ![examplestrip](examplestrip.png)
 
 ## String Replace Node
-Replaces text strings with new strings. Each line should contain a search and replace pair separated by a colon `:` See example image below.
+Replaces text strings with new strings. Each line should contain a search and replace pair separated replace_delimiter. See example image below.  
+![stringreplace](stringreplace.png)
 
 ### Inputs
 - **`input_string`**: The string or text to process
 - **`replacement_pairs`**: List of search:replace pairs (one per line)
+- **`replacement_delimiter`**: Character(s) that separate search and replace strings. Default is a double colon `::`
 - **`match_case`**: Enable/disable case-sensitive matching
 - **`match_whole_string`**: Ensure only exact matches are replaced
 - **`remove_extra_spaces`**: Clean up extra spaces after replacement

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "comfyui_stringessentials"
 description = "Essential string manipulation nodes for ComfyUI."
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "1.0.1"
 license = "MIT"
 
 [project.urls]

string_replace_node.py

@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ class StringReplaceNode:
         return {
             "required": {
                 "replacement_pairs": ("STRING", {"multiline": True, "default": "",
-                    "tooltip": "Enter replacement pairs, one per line, in format 'search:replace'. Example: 'cat:dog' or 'A drawing of:A photo of'"}),
+                    "tooltip": "Enter replacement pairs, one per line. Format: 'search<delimiter>replace'. Default delimiter is ':' (colon)"}),
+                "replacement_delimiter": ("STRING", {"default": "::", 
+                    "tooltip": "Character(s) that separate search and replace strings. Default is two '::' (colons)"}),
                 "match_case": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": False,
                     "label_on": "enabled", "label_off": "disabled"}),
-                "match_whole_string": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": True,
+                "match_whole_string": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": False,
                     "label_on": "enabled", "label_off": "disabled"}),
                 "remove_extra_spaces": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": True,
                     "label_on": "enabled", "label_off": "disabled"})
@@ -21,16 +23,16 @@ class StringReplaceNode:
     FUNCTION = "string_replace"
     CATEGORY = "utils"
 
-    def string_replace(self, input_string, replacement_pairs, match_case, match_whole_string, remove_extra_spaces):
+    def string_replace(self, input_string, replacement_pairs, replacement_delimiter, match_case, match_whole_string, remove_extra_spaces):
         result = input_string
         flags = 0 if match_case else re.IGNORECASE
 
         for line in replacement_pairs.splitlines():
             line = line.strip()
-            if not line or ':' not in line:
+            if not line or replacement_delimiter not in line:
                 continue
 
-            search_str, replace_str = line.split(':', 1)
+            search_str, replace_str = line.split(replacement_delimiter, 1)
             search_str = search_str.strip()
             replace_str = replace_str.strip()
 
@@ -46,9 +48,7 @@ class StringReplaceNode:
             result = re.sub(pattern, replace_str, result, flags=flags)
 
         if remove_extra_spaces:
-            # Replace multiple spaces with single space
             result = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', result)
-        
-        # Strip leading and trailing spaces
-        result = result.strip()
+            result = result.strip()
+            
         return (result,)