I have a list of strings - something like mytext = ['This is some text','this is yet more text','This is text that contains the substring foobar123','yet more text'] I want to find the first occurrence of anything that starts with foobar. If I was grepping then I would do search for foobar*. My current solution looks like this for...
Source text: United States Declaration of Independence How can one split the above source text into a number of sub-strings, containing an 'n' number of words? I use split(' ') to extract each word, however I do not know how to do this with multiple words in one operation. I could run through the list of words that I have, and create...
Is there any tool or utility or perl/python script that can find longest repeated substrings in a large text file and print those patterns and the number of times each pattern occurs? ...
Situation: I am writing a basic templating system in Python/mod_python that reads in a main HTML template and replaces instances of ":value:" throughout the document with additional HTML or db results and then returns it as a view to the user. I am not trying to replace all instances of 1 substring. Values can vary. There is a finite...
Using PHP I'd like to compare an actual ip address to part of one, and see if it matches. For example I want to see if the address matches 12.34.. <?php $rem_address = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'); $temp = substr ($rem_address,0,6) if ($temp == "12.34.") echo "It's a match"; ?> Is there an easier/better way to do this? ...
How to replace a set of characters inside another string in Python? Here is what I'm trying to do: let's say I have a string 'abcdefghijkl' and want to replace the 2-d from the end symbol (k) with A. I'm getting an error: >>> aa = 'abcdefghijkl' >>> print aa[-2] k >>> aa[-2]='A' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>",...
How do you the following: given a string, generate all the possible ways to parse that string into substrings (time is important, space dont' care). For example, given the string ABCD, I need to generate: ABCD A BCD A BC D A B CD AB CD AB C D ABC D A B C D Probably a recursive solution, but I can't quite get it to work. ...
suppose to have the following string: commandone{alpha} commandtwo{beta} {gamma}commandthree commandtwo{delta} and I want to abtain: commandone{alpha} beta {gamma}commandthree delta well I'm triying with regex and sed, I can easily find if is it present the pattern I look for /commandtwo{.*}/ but not erasing commandtwo and the foll...
Hi Can somebody tell me how to highlight common substrings between two buffers in Emacs? I can write a script to do that but was wondering if there was a built-in macro in Emacs by which I can do this. Thanks, Raj ...