I want to perform the following vim substitution as a one-liner in the terminal with Perl. I would prefer to allow for any occurences of whitespace or newlines, rather than explicitly catering for them as I am below. %s/blockDontForget">\n*\s*<p><span><a\(.*\)<\/span>/blockDontForget"><p><a\1/g I've tried this: perl -pi -e 's/bl...
I have a file containing a lot of SQL statements, such as: CREATE TABLE "USER" ( "ID" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, "NAME" CHARACTER VARYING(50) NOT NULL, "AGE" INTEGER NOT NULL ); COPY "USER" (id, name, age) FROM stdin; 1 Skywalker 19 2 Kenobi 57 I want the column names in the COPY statements to be uppercased and quote...
I'd think there was a question on this already, but I can't find one. Maybe the solution is too easy... Anyway, I have a flat-file and want to let the user change the values based on a name. I've already sorted out creating new name+value-pairs using the fopen('a') mode, using jQuery to send the AJAX call with newValue and newName. But s...
How can I replace a string with another string, within a given text file. Do I just loop through readline() and run the replacement while saving out to a new file? Or is there a better way? I'm thinking that I could read the whole thing into memory, but I'm looking for a more elegant solution... Thanks in advance ...
I'm implementing a c# program that should automatize a Mono-alphabetic substitution cipher. The functionality i'm working on at the moment is the simplest one: The user will provide a plain text and a cipher alphabet, for example: Plain text(input): THIS IS A TEST Cipher alphabet: A -> Y, H -> Z, I -> K, S -> L, E -> J, T -> Q Cipher ...
I am trying to replace function calls written when methods were nonstatic to an updated version were they are. For example: TABLE_foo(table1, ...rest is the same with table1.foo(...rest is the same This is what I have come up with using my limited understanding of regex and this site. find: TABLE_(*)\((*), replace: $2.$1( The abov...
How can I do a search for value A in column1 and add a value B in column2? In other words for every record that column1 has the value A I want to make the value in column2 = B (Currently column2 is empty) Would this work? UPDATE MyTable SET Column2 = REPLACE(Column2,NULL,'B') WHERE Column1 = "A" ...
I have a macro that I use to replace special characters for its html entities. I would like to save it in my .vimrc. According to this, I should use let @r=' *macro_text_goes_here* '. The problem is that my macro is a series of search and replace, something like this: :%s:á:\á:Ige :%s:é:\é:Ige :%s:í:\í:Ige So, I'...
I have a file with the following expressions: something[0] Where instead of 0 there could be different numbers. I want to replace all these occurances with somethingElse0 Where the number should be the same as in the expression I replaced. How do I do that? ...
I want to write a python code that open a text file and Replace with a word that i want send to it . May you give me an example ? Thanks . ...
Lets say I have a bunch of areas like: joe is punching jim joe is kicking jim joe is spitting on jim. and I wanted to find every case with joe is _ jim and completely change the order around. normally I would just do a wilcard search, and search and replace "joe is [^"]* jim". but what if i wanted to KEEP whatever the wildcard was an...
How can I write a (La)TeX command that replaces all [ with { and all ] with }, assuming that every [ has a matching ], and that any braces between the [ and ] are balanced? It needs to be able to deal with nested brackets. For example, I want to be able to write a command \mynewcommand so that \mynewcommand{{[[{1}{2}][{3}{4}]]}} is the...
I am trying to search and replace some of the text (eg 'Smith, John') in this pdf form file (header.fdf, I presumed this is treated as binary file): '%FDF-1.2\n%\xe2\xe3\xcf\xd3\n1 0 obj\n<</FDF<</Fields[<</V(M)/T(PatientSexLabel)>><</V(24-09-1956 53)/T(PatientDateOfBirth)>><</V(Fisher)/T(PatientLastNameLabel)>><</V(CNSL)/T(PatientCons...
I would like to search all files via eclipse which contain the following 2 lines @Length(max = L_255) private String description; and replace it with @Length(max = L_255, message="{validator.description.len}") private String description; ...
I'm working on a VS solution with 100+ projects in C#. I'm currently migrating it from VS 2008 to VS 2010. There is some work to be done because a lot of the projects use Enterprise Library 4 (which has to be upgraded to 5.0) and WCSF 2008 (which has to be upgraded to SCSF 2010). I'm going through the SCSF upgrade instructions, and one i...
I would prefer to have an empty line prior to the last return statement of any Java method. How do I find and replace such lines using Eclipse? public int foo() { ... ... System.out.println("end of foo"); return 1; } In this case , I would prefer an empty line before the return statement, do note that there could be a...
Hey everybody, I need a function, that starts, when the DOM is loaded. In my HTML Page are several empty Image Tags, like and I want to add an Image-Name into the src-property when everything is loaded to get something like <img src="blank.jpg">. Best wishes Chris ...
I'm wondering how you can substitute the src-property (or delete the whole img-node) with JavaScript, if the browser is realizing, that the image beyond the image-src-property doesn't exist (any more). For example: <div id="foo"> <img src="bar"> </div> And the img-tag is pointing to nowhere. In some browser, esp. the iE, are showi...
Hey, I am trying to write a ruby script which will look in a directory and its subdirectories for HTML files, open those HTML files and insert the following line just above the closing head tag: <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /> I am trying to do this with Ruby because its the only language I am familar with...
Hi all, This is my 3rd post in the process of learning sed. I have a hypothetical requirement. I want to be able to replace 3rd word in each line by 'was', where words are delimited by space(s). bash$ cat words hi this is me here hi this is me again hi this is me yet again hi this is me Desired output: hi this was me h...