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How to replace a string at a particular position

Is there a way to replace a portion of a String at a given position in javascript.For instance I want to replace 00 in the hours column with 12 in the below string.The substring comes at 13 to 15. Mar 16, 2010 00:00 AM ...

Reading and Writing Configuration Files

Hello everybody! I'm writing a small script which generates some configuration for devices. I want to have separate file, where I'm storing configuration, and change some strings during printing the content of the configuration to the browser. How can I replace string in a line of the file with a variable from $_POST['somevariable']? --...

Regex for adding a versionnumber to .js and .css references in a HTML document

Hi folks, I have a HTML document where I want to automatically have a version number added to all script and style sheet references. the following should be replaced <link ... href="file.css" media="all" /> <script ... src="file.js"></script> <script ... src="http://myhost.com/file.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; with that <link ... hre...

replacing all instances on a page - javascript

Hi I would like to replace all href and action attributes on a page with href="#" and action="#". Could someone point out where i am going wrong; $(document).ready(function(){ var contents = $("body").html(); contents.replace( /href=[\"'][^'\"]*[\"']/g, 'href="#"' ); contents.replace( /action=[\"'][^'\"]*[\"']/g, 'action="#"' ); }); ...

javascript replace

hello, i want to replace month name by number in array, but my script doesnt work. for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) { arr = arr.replace(/Jan/g, "01"); } Can somebody help me please? ...

Sed removing duplicate characters and certain characters in beginning/end of string

Hello, I am asking for your help with sed. I need to remove duplicate underscores and underscores from beginning and end of string. For example: echo '[Lorem] ~ ipsum *dolor* sit metus !!!' | sed 's/[^ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789._()-]/_/g' Produces: _Lorem____ipsum__dolor__sit_metus____ But I ne...

Find and replace a particular term in multiple files

How can I replace a particular term in multiple files in Linux? For instance, I have a number of files in my directory: file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt And I need to find a word "searchword" and replace it with "replaceword". ...

Replace string with a control

Hey everyone, I have a string with special characters insert in different places. For example: string myString = "This is a textbox: ##"; I would like to replace the ## with a control (namely, a textbox). The Replace method only allows the string to be replaced with another string or character (understandably). But what would be t...

regex.replace Querystring parameters

I don't know if this is even possible, I have the following regular expression (?<=[\?|\&])(?[^\?=\&#]+)=?(?[^\?=\&#]*)& which splits a URL into key/value pairs. I would like to use this in a replace function to build some markup: string sTest = "test.aspx?width=100&height=200&"; ltTest.Text = Regex.Replace(sTest, @"(?<=[\?...

Problem with replacing a word in a file, using Python

I have a .txt file containing data like this: 1,Rent1,Expense,16/02/2010,1,4000,4000 1,Car Loan1,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4500,9000 1,Flat Loan1,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4000,8000 0,Rent2,Expense,16/02/2010,1,4000,4000 0,Car Loan2,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4500,9000 0,Flat Loan2,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4000,8000 I want to replace the first...

How do I replace lines in the middle of a file with Perl?

I am opening the file in append mode. I need to replace lines 2,3, and 4 in the file, and later I need to add the new data at the end of the file. ...

How do I strip quotes from an input box using PHP

I have this: <input name="title" type="text" class="inputMedium" value="' . $inputData['title'] . '" /> I want to strip quotes from user input so that if someone enters something like: "This is my title" it wont mess up my code. I tried this and it's not working: $inputData['title'] = str_replace('"', '', $_POST['title']); ...

How to replace 2 strings (with eachother) simultaneously in PHP

What I'm trying to do is very simple, but I'm looking to do it most efficiently, preferably using php builtin fns. $str = '1234'; echo replace_function(array('1','3'),array('3','1'),$str); // output: 3214 str_replace,preg_replace would result in 1214, which means it goes through the arrays, replacing matched strings. I'm looking for ...

replace character (space with &nbsp;) across whole webpage using javascript/jQuery

Hi, So I figured out that the replace function, that finds all single-letter "words" (prepositions and conjunction, etc.) and replace the space after them with a &nbsp; to prevent leaving these characters at the end of line, should be something like myString.replace(/\s\w(?=\s)/,"$1&nbsp;") Now how do I apply it to all text on a webp...

removing xml tag with regex

Hi, I need to remove the tag "image" with regex. I'm working with C# .Net example <rrr><image from="91524" to="92505" /></rrr> should become: <rrr></rrr> Anyone??? ...

SQL SELECT... WHERE with REPLACE - worried that it's inefficient

In SQL Server 2005, I have a Product search that looks like: select ProductID, Name, Email from Product where Name = @Name I've been asked to ignore a couple "special" characters in Product.Name, so that a search for "Potatoes" returns "Po-ta-toes" as well as "Potatoes". My first thought is to just do this: select ProductID, Name, ...

N-Insert In Sed

How would I replace the first 150 characters of every line with spaces using sed. I don't want to bring out the big guns (Python, Perl, etc) and it seems like sed is pretty powerful in itself (some people have written the dc calculator in it for example). A related problem is inserting 150 spaces in front of every line. s/^.\{50\}/?????...

Replace a whole line in a file

Hi, I have a .txt file containing data like this: 0,Rent1,Expense,16/02/2010,1,4000,4000 0,Car Loan1,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4500,9000 0,Flat Loan1,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4000,8000 0,Rent2,Expense,16/02/2010,1,4000,4000 0,Car Loan2,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4500,9000 0,Flat Loan2,Expense,16/02/2010,2,4000,8000 Now i want to replace ...

JavaScript regex replace - but only part of matched string?

I have the following replace function myString.replace(/\s\w(?=\s)/,"$1\xA0"); The aim is to take single-letter words (e.g. prepositions) and add a non-breaking space after them, instead of standard space. However the above $1 variable doesn't work for me. It inserts text "$1 " instead of a part of original matched string + nbsp. Wh...

Replace javascript on a site with Greasemonkey

Hello, does anyone know how to replace JavaScript on a site with Greasemonkey ie. This is the default code: var Test="1"; And i want to replace it like this on the page load: var Test="2"; Thanks in advance! ...