I'm helpless on regular expressions so please help me on this problem. Basically I am downloading web pages and rss feeds and want to strip everything except plain words. No periods, commas, if, ands, and buts. Literally I have a list of the most common words used in English and I also want to strip those too but I think I know how to d...
I have some text files that contain some non ASCII characters, I want to remove them, however keep the formatting characters. I tried $description = preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]/', '', $description); However that appeared to strip newlines and other formatting out and also had problems with some Hebrew which then converted th...
I am looking for an objective C function (custom or built-in) that strips html tags from a string, similar to PHP's version that can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Any help would be appreciated! ...
I need to remove tags from a string in python. <FNT name="Century Schoolbook" size="22">Title</FNT> What is the most efficient way to remove the entire tag on both ends, leaving only "Title"? I've only seen ways to do this with HTML tags, and that hasn't worked for me in python. I'm using this particularly for ArcMap, a GIS program. I...
looking at this issue on stackoverflow, i got going in the right direction to what i'm looking for: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/652917/in-jquery-want-to-remove-all-html-inside-of-a-div i have a textarea similar to the following: <textarea id="inputPane" cols="80" rows="40" class="pane" style="height:300px;"> <table><tr><td> <b>...
I have an html string and I need help transforming this: <table > <tr> <td><a href="/link.html" onclick="javascript:aFunction()">some text</a></td> <td><a href="/anotherlink.html">some more text</a></td> </tr> </table> to this: <table > <tr> <td>some text</td> <td>some more text</td> ...
How do I strip all the spaces in a python string? For example, I want a string like strip my spaces to be turned into stripmyspaces, but I cannot seem to accomplish that with strip(): >>> 'strip my spaces'.strip() 'strip my spaces' ...
Hi, How it is possible to allow <br /> in strip_tags() or any way I can get around to it? <?php $text = '<p>Test <br />paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>'; echo strip_tags($text); echo "\n"; // Allow <p>, <a>, <br /> echo strip_tags($text, '<p><a><br />'); echo "\n"; // Allow <br /> only echo strip_tags...
I am wanting to take the text value of a p tag when I press enter $.keynav.enterDown = function () { var accom = $('#suggestions p.keynavon').html(); alert(accom); } This is working great but the results contain <span> and </span> tags, is there anyway I can strip those tags from the string? ...
I am trying to write this funtion to grab the text value and then strip the text from after the - symbol and the - symbol itself. eg some text - is found would become some text This is what iv got so far currently it just removes the - $.keynav.enterDown = function () { var accom = $('#suggestions p.keynavon').text().r...
How could I change this code to not allow a 0 and to strip out all non number characters? <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var a= document.getElementsByName('a')[0]; var b= document.getElementsByName('b')[0]; var c= document.getElementsByName('c')[0]; a.onchange=b.onchange=a.onkeyup=b.on...
Here is my situation. I'm trying to create a valid rss feed for an itunes podcast from an existing project. It's a rails application that allows uploading of mp3 radio shows to for listening on the site. I want to take all entries in the database and create an rss feed out of it. I'm using a builder file and everything is working fin...
I have a text input field for titles of various things and to help minimize false negatives on search results(internal search is not the best), I need to have a REGEX pattern which looks at the first four characters of the input string and removes the word(and space after the word) _the _ if it is there at the beginning only. For examp...
Smarty has a {strip} function: {strip} <table border='0'> <tr> <td> Hello world </td> </tr> </table> {/strip} Which outputs: <table border='0'><tr><td>Hello world</td></tr></table> I also want to do this in Zend (to reduce the amount of bites send on each request), without installing Smarty. However, I don't want to add ...
Those stupid 'string'.method! returning nil instead of self in ruby - can be easily overriden: class String ['strip!', 'upcase!', 'downcase!', 'capitalize!', 'chop!', 'chomp!', 'delete!', 'gsub!'].each do |meth| orig_meth = "orig_#{meth}" alias_method orig_meth, meth define_method(meth) do |*args| ...
Hi there, I'm trying to get a users ID from a string such as: http://www.abcxyz.com/123456789/ To appear as 123456789 essentially stripping the info up to the first / and also removing the end /. I did have a look around on the net but there seems to be so many solutions but nothing answering both start and end. Thanks :) Update 1 ...
When i post something with " to a php page, it gets escaped with \" ; . To get rid of this in the php file, i've tried str_ireplace, htmlspecialchars_decode and stripslashes, nothing is working. Is there a way i can strip it out after it's returned to the js file? ...