string-manipulation

Replace \n with <br> and \r\n with <p> in javascript

Hi All, I need JS that will remove any HTML tags, and then replace newlines with </p><p> and line breaks with <br/>. The string value is coming from a textarea and I understand Linux, Mac and Windows all format newlines differently so I need to take that into account. Thanks! ...

extracting numbers and characters from a string, which doesn't follow a specific format? (postfix calculator)

Hey there, I'm having trouble separating numbers and characters from my input string. The purpose of my program is to add,subtract,multiply and divide in postfix so i cant predict the input form as it can be anything from 2 2 3 + * (answer being 10) to 2 2 + 3 * (answer being 12). So i cant use sscanf to extract the numbers and the opera...

What is the best way to get two parts of a Groovy string?

If I have a string in Groovy like so... 'user.company.name' ... and I want to get the the word "company" and "name" from that string, what is the best way to go about it? I was thinking of something like this, but I'm not sure if it's the most efficient/groovy way: def items = 'user.company.name'.tokenize('.') def company = items[-2...

print two dimensional array of strings as String

I know how to do toString method for one dimensional arrays of strings, but how to print two dimensional array ? With 1D I do it this way : public String toString() { StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(); res = this.magnitude; String separator = ""; if (res.length > 0) { result.append(res[0]); for (i...

Wind blowing on String

I have some basic idea on how to do this task, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right. So we have class WindyString with metod blow. After using it : System.out.println(WindyString.blow( "Abrakadabra! The second chance to pass has already BEGUN! ")); we should obtain something like this : e ...

Processing a log to fix a malformed IP address ?.?.?.x

I would like to replace the first character 'x' with the number '7' on every line of a log file using a shell script. Example of the log file: 216.129.119.x [01/Mar/2010:00:25:20 +0100] "GET /etc/.... 74.131.77.x [01/Mar/2010:00:25:37 +0100] "GET /etc/.... 222.168.17.x [01/Mar/2010:00:27:10 +0100] "GET /etc/.... My humble beginnings.....

String manipulation in C#

I have the following text, I need to extract the exception name and the continuing sentence from the file, but the file has continuous sentences without a space. ??????>????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????...

C# - Replace Every UpperCase Letter with Underscore and the Letter

How do replace Every UpperCase Letter with Underscore and the Letter in C#? note: unless the character is already proceeded by a underscore. UPDATE: For example, MikeJones would be turned into Mike_Jones But Mike_Jones would not be turned into Mike__Jones Is Regex the best approach? Where do I start with this one? ...

Get the last '/' or '\\' character in Python

If I have a string that looks like either ./A/B/c.d OR .\A\B\c.d How do I get just the "./A/B/" part? The direction of the slashes can be the same as they are passed. This problem kinda boils down to: How do I get the last of a specific character in a string? Basically, I want the path of a file without the file part of it. ...

Regarding Java String dollar to cents conversion

I have a java string which has an dollar value and cents value after decimal points and starting with a + or - sign. I want to convert into cents and store it in a integer (it can have + or -). Also i need to check if the cents part (after decimal point) not more than 2 digits and throw an error message if exists example : String dollv...

How to Split and strip into multiple variables?

How to Split and strip X string values into separate variables? X has string value of itemA=myvalue&itemB=anothervalue&itemC=andanother I have 3 strings (var1,var2,var3) to hold the values of the stripped values. Find in string X "itemA=" copy everything after "=" character until "&" character OR if no "&" character is found copy u...

Best way to correct garbled data caused by false encoding

Hi all, I have a set of data that contains garbled text fields because of encoding errors during many import/exports from one database to another. Most of the errors were caused by converting UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1. Strangely enough, the errors are not consistent: the word 'München' appears as 'München' in some place and also as 'MÃœnchen...

Text transforms on all of objects properties, is there a better way?

Currently I am doing this: I have text that looks like: Hello ${user.name}, this is .... And I do this: public string TransformUser(User user, string text) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(text); sb.Replace("${user.name}", user.Name); ... ... return sb.ToString(); } Is there a better way, maybe using reflection ...

python string class like stringbuilder in c#

Is there something string class like stringbuilder in c#? Thanks ...

Regarding String Manipulation

I have a string which has the below content String msg="The variables &CHAG_EF and &CHAG_DNE_DTE can be embedded in the description " String test1="22/10/2010 00:10:12" String test2 = "25/10/2010 00:01:12" I need to search the string variable msg for the value "&CHAG_EF" and if it exists replace with the value of test1 and need ...

Regarding String array declaration

I have the below String assignment statement String items[] = line.split("\",\"",15); String fileNamet = items[1].replaceAll("\"","").trim(); I need to introduce a new if statement if (valid) { String items[] = line.split("\",\"",15); } else { String items[] = line.split("\",\"",16); } String fileNamet = items[1].replaceAll...

how to return the character which is at the index ?

I know that i could return the index of a particular character of a string with indexof() function. But how i could return the character with the particular index? ...

how to find a string pattern and print it from my text file using C#

i have a text file with string "abcdef" I want to search for the string "abc" in my test file ... and print the next two character for abc ..here it is "de". how i could accomplish ? which class and function? ...

getting string.substring(N) not to choke when N > string.length

I'm writing some code that takes a report from the mainframe and converts it to a spreadsheet. They can't edit the code on the MF to give me a delimited file, so I'm stuck dealing with it as fixed width. It's working okay now, but I need to get it more stable before I release it for testing. My problem is that in any given line of dat...

How to continue from where I have been searching to find the index?

How to continue from where I have been searching to find the index? I am searching in a file to find the index of a character; then I have to continue from there to find the index of the next character. For example : string is " habcdefghij" int index = message.IndexOf("c"); Label2.Text = index.ToString(); labe...