I want to replace ― back into --
I tried with the utf8 encodings but that doesn't work
string = "blablabla -- blablabla ―"
I want to replace the long dash (if there is one) with double hyphens. I tried it the simple way but that didn't work:
string= string.replace ("―", "--")
I also tried to encode it with utf8 and use the codes of the special characters
stringutf8= string.encode("utf-8")
emdash= u"\u2014"
hyphen= u"\u002D"
if emdash in stringutf8:
stringutf8.replace(emdash, 2*hyphen)
Any suggestions?
I am working with text files in which sometimes apparently the two hyphens are replaced automatically with a long dash...
thanks a lot!
You are dealing with strings here. Strings are lists of characters. Replace the character, leave the encoding out of the equation.
string = 'blablabla -- blablabla \u2014'
emdash = '\u2014'
hyphen = '\u002D'
string2 = string.replace(emdash, 2*hyphen)
Related
Say we have a string:
s = '\xe5\xaf\x92\xe5\x81\x87\\u2014\\u2014\xe5\x8e\xa6\xe9\x97\xa8'
Somehow two symbols, '—', whose Unicode is \u2014 was not correctly encoded as '\xe2\x80\x94' in UTF-8. Is there an easy way to decode this string? It should be decoded as 寒假——厦门
Manually using the replace function is OK:
t = u'\u2014'
s.replace('\u2014', t.encode('utf-8')
print s
However, it is not automatic. If we extract the Unicode,
index = s.find('\u')
t = s[index : index+6]
then t = '\\u2014'. How to convert it to UTF-8 code?
You're missing extra slashes in your replace()
It should be:
s.replace("\\u2014", u'\u2014'.encode("utf-8") )
Check my warning in the comments of the question. You should not end up in this situation.
I am having difficulties replacing a string containing special characters using sed. My old and new string are shown below
oldStr = "# td=(nstates=20) cam-b3lyp/6-31g geom=connectivity"
newStr = "# opt b3lyp/6-31g geom=connectivity"
My sed command is the following
sed -i 's/\# td\=\(nstates\=20\) cam\-b3lyp\/6\-31g geom\=connectivity/\# opt b3lyp\/6\-31g geom\=connectivity/g' myfile.txt
I dont get any errors, however there is no match. Any ideas on how to fix my patterns.
Thanks
try s|# td=(nstates=20) cam-b3lyp/6-31g geom=connectivity|# opt b3lyp/6-31g geom=connectivity|g'
you can use next to anything after s instead of /, as your expression contains slashes I used | instead. -, = and # don't have to be escaped (minus only in character sets [...]), escaped parens indicate a group, nonescaped parens are literals.
I want to clean my text from html tags, html spacial characters and characters like < > [ ] / \ * ,
I used $str = preg_replace("/&#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;/i", "", $str);
it works well with html special characters but some characters doesn't remove like :
( /*/*]]>*/ )
how can I remove these characters?
If you are really using php as it looks like, you can just use:
$str = htmlspecialchars($str);
All HTML chars will be escaped (which could be better than just stripping them). If you really want just to filter these characters, what you need to do is escape those characters on the chars list:
$str = preg_replace("/[\&#\?\]\[\/\\\<\>\*\:\(\);]*/i","",$str);
Notice there's just one "/[]*/i", I removed the a-zA-Z0-9 as you should want these chars in. You can also classify only the desired chars to enter your string (will give you trouble with accentuations like á é ü if you use them, you have to specify every accepted char):
$str = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9áÁéÉíÍãÃüÜõÕñÑ\.\+\-\_\%\$\#\!\=;]*/","",$str);
Notice also there's never too much to escape characters, unless for example for the intervals (\a-\z would do fine, \a-\z would match a, or -, or z).
I hope it helps. :)
Regular expression for html tags is:
/\<(.*)?\>/
so use something like this:
// The regular expression to remove HTML tags
$htmltagsregex = '/\<(.*)?\>/';
// what shit will substitute it
$nothing = '';
// the string I want to apply it to
$string = 'this is a string with <b>HTML tags</b> that I want to <strong>remove</strong>';
// DO IT
$result = preg_replace ($htmltagsregex,nothing,$string);
and it will return
this is a string with HTML tags that I want to remove
That's all
I'm trying to figure out in all the Internets what's the special character for printing a simple tab in Pascal. I have to format a table in a CLI program and that would be handy.
Single non printable characters can be constructed using their ascii code prefixed with #
Since the ascii value for tab is 9, a tab is then #9. Characters such constructed must be outside literals, but don't need + to concatenate:
E.g.
const
sometext = 'firstfield'#9'secondfield'#13#10;
contains two fields separated by a tab, ended by a carriage return (#13) + a linefeed #10
The ' character can be made both via this route, or shorter by just ending the literal and reopening it:
const
some2 = '''bla'''; // will contain 'bla' with the ticks.
some3 = 'start''bla''end'; // will contain start'bla'end
write( ^i );
:-)
So, I have a bunch of strings like this: {\b\cf12 よろてそ } . I'm thinking I could iterate over each character and replace any unicode (Edit: Anything where AscW(char) > 127 or < 0) with a unicode escape code (\u###). However, I'm not sure how to programmatically do so. Any suggestions?
Clarification:
I have a string like {\b\cf12 よろてそ } and I want a string like {\b\cf12 [STUFF]}, where [STUFF] will display as よろてそ when I view the rtf text.
You can simply use the AscW() function to get the correct value:-
sRTF = "\u" & CStr(AscW(char))
Note unlike other escapes for unicode, RTF uses the decimal signed short int (2 bytes) representation for a unicode character. Which makes the conversion in VB6 really quite easy.
Edit
As MarkJ points out in a comment you would only do this for characters outside of 0-127 but then you would also need to give some other characters inside the 0-127 range special handling as well.
Another more roundabout way, would be to add the MSScript.OCX to the project and interface with VBScript's Escape function. For example
Sub main()
Dim s As String
s = ChrW$(&H3088) & ChrW$(&H308D) & ChrW$(&H3066) & ChrW$(&H305D)
Debug.Print MyEscape(s)
End Sub
Function MyEscape(s As String) As String
Dim scr As Object
Set scr = CreateObject("MSScriptControl.ScriptControl")
scr.Language = "VBScript"
scr.Reset
MyEscape = scr.eval("escape(" & dq(s) & ")")
End Function
Function dq(s)
dq = Chr$(34) & s & Chr$(34)
End Function
The Main routine passes in the original Japanese characters and the debug output says:
%u3088%u308D%u3066%u305D
HTH