I'm trying to remove an escape sequence (\p) from selected strings (for reuse in other places in my code). I want to create a separate object that holds that cleaned up string. Like this
(pseudo code)
NSString *stringWithEscSequence = anEdgewoodSecretPlace.placeName;
NSString *stringWithoutEscSequence = [removeTheEscSequenceP stringWithEscSequence];
(where removeTheEscSequenceP is what I'm trying to figure out how to do)
....
I played with NSString formats and I found related questions at
Position of a character NSString
and
how to replace one substring with another in Objective C?
I can break out the substring that follows the escape sequence use ideas from the second posting. So I thought then I should try to locate the actual index of the escape sequence. But I can't figure out how to do that. Also I think there is probably a less messy, more straightforward way to do this, that I'm not thinking of.
I was playing around with the first posting ideas, though I knew that I was in a kind of primitive mode. But as soon as I attempt to replace "ABCD" with "\". I get an error 'Missing terminating """ = except if I put the ABCD string back in I'm not missing any quotes. I think it's because of the special nature ofo the \ character.
Even if I could figure out how to search for the "\" and then a "p" following that, I don't think that's really the best way to approach this
NSCharacterSet *charSet = [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:#"ABCD"];
NSRange range2 = [testCleanString rangeOfCharacterFromSet:charSet];
if (range2.location == NSNotFound) {
NSLog (#"Didn't find esc sequence");
} else {
NSLog (#"range.location is %lu",(unsigned long)range2.location );
}
You could try with this:
NSString* stringWithoutEscSequence = [stringWithEscSequence stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"stringToRemove" withString:#"replacement"];
If you want to replace multiple characters you could do:
NSCharacterSet* toRemove = [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:#"\n\p\t"];
NSString* stringWithoutEscSequence = [[stringWithEscSequence componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:toRemove] componentsJoinedByString: #""];
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I'm building a command parser and I've successfully managed to split strings into separate words and get it all working, but the one thing I'm a bit stumped at is how to remove all punctuation from the string. Users will input characters like , . ! ? often, but with those characters there, it doesn't recognize the word, so any punctuation will need to be removed.
So far I've tested this:
func process_command(_input: String) -> String:
var words:Array = _input.replace("?", "").to_lower().split(" ", false)
It works fine and successfully removes question marks, but I want it to remove all punctuation. Hoping this will be a simple thing to solve! I'm new to Godot so still learning how a lot of the stuff works in it.
You could remove an unwantes character by putting them in an array and then do what you already are doing:
var str_result = input
var unwanted_chars = [".",",",":","?" ] #and so on
for c in unwanted_chars:
str_result = str_result.replace(c,"")
I am not sure what you want to achieve in the long run, but parsing strings can be easier with the use of regular expressions. So if you want to search strings for apecific patterns you should look into this:
regex
Given some input, which I'll just write here as example:
var input := "Hello, It's me!!"
We want to get a modified version where we have filtered the characters:
var output := ""
We need to know what we will filter. For example:
var deny_list := [",", "!"]
We could have a list of things we accept instead, you would just flip a conditional later on.
And then we can iterate over the string, for each character decide if we want to keep it, and if so add it to the output:
for position in input.length():
var current_character := input[position]
if not deny_list.has(current_character):
output += current_character
I am fairly new to Puppet and Ruby. Most likely this question has been asked before but I am not able to find any relevant information.
In my puppet code I will have a string variable retrieved from the fact hostname.
$n="$facts['hostname'].ex-ample.com"
I am expecting to get the values like these
DEV-123456-02B.ex-ample.com,
SCC-123456-02A.ex-ample.com,
DEV-123456-03B.ex-ample.com,
SCC-999999-04A.ex-ample.com
I want to perform the following action. Change the string to lowercase and then replace the
-02, -03 or -04 to -01.
So my output would be like
dev-123456-01b.ex-ample.com,
scc-123456-01a.ex-ample.com,
dev-123456-01b.ex-ample.com,
scc-999999-01a.ex-ample.com
I figured I would need to use .downcase on $n to make everything lowercase. But I am not sure how to replace the digits. I was thinking of .gsub or split but not sure how. I would prefer to make this happen in a oneline code.
If you really want a one-liner, you could run this against each string:
str
.downcase
.split('-')
.map
.with_index { |substr, i| i == 2 ? substr.gsub(/0[0-9]/, '01') : substr }
.join('-')
Without knowing what format your input list is taking, I'm not sure how to advise on how to iterate through it, but maybe you have that covered already. Hope it helps.
Note that Puppet and Ruby are entirely different languages and the other answers are for Ruby and won't work in Puppet.
What you need is:
$h = downcase(regsubst($facts['hostname'], '..(.)$', '01\1'))
$n = "${h}.ex-ample.com"
notice($n)
Note:
The downcase and regsubst functions come from stdlib.
I do a regex search and replace using the regsubst function and replace ..(.)$ - 2 characters followed by another one that I capture at the end of the string and replace that with 01 and the captured string.
All of that is then downcased.
If the -01--04 part is always on the same string index you could use that to replace the content.
original = 'DEV-123456-02B.ex-ample.com'
# 11 -^
string = original.downcase # creates a new downcased string
string[11, 2] = '01' # replace from index 11, 2 characters
string #=> "dev-123456-01b.ex-ample.com"
I am trying to find specific word in a div (id="Test") that starts with "a04" (no case). I can find and replace the words found. But I am unable to correctly use the word found in a "href" link.
I am trying the following working code that correctly identifies my search criteria. My current code is working as expected but I would like help as i do not know how to used the found work as the url id?
var test = document.getElementById("test").innerHTML
function replacetxt(){
var str_rep = document.getElementById("test").innerHTML.replace(/a04(\w)+/g,'TEST');
var temp = str_rep;
//alert(temp);
document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = temp;
}
I would like to wrap the found word in an href but i do not know how to use the found word as the url id (url.com?id=found word).
Can someone help point out how to reference the found work please?
Thanks
If you want to use your pattern with the capturing group, you could move the quantifier + inside the group or else you would only get the value of the last iteration.
\ba04(\w+)
\b word boundary to prevent the match being part of a longer word
a04 Match literally
(\w+) Capture group 1, match 1+ times a word character
Regex demo
Then you could use the first capturing group in the replacement by referring to it with $1
If the string is a04word, you would capture word in group 1.
Your code might look like:
function replacetxt(){
var elm = document.getElementById("test");
if (elm) {
elm.innerHTML = elm.innerHTML.replace(/\ba04(\w+)/g,'TEST');
}
}
replacetxt();
<div id="test">This is text a04word more text here</div>
Note that you don't have to create extra variables like var temp = str_rep;
consider I have this string
a='flexray_datain_flexray_sensors'
and I want to process this string to get
a='flexray_datain_sensors'
And the thing is this can be for any repeated words and not just flexray in matlab. If I already know what the word is then it's easy
I tried:
parts = textscan(bypname , '%s', 'delimiter', '_');
parts = parts{:};
and then processing this cell(parts) using unique or something and removing the repeated words. But I need a better answer .
Does this work for you?
strjoin(unique(strsplit(a,'_'),'stable'),'_')
I'm trying to read a string in a specific format
RealSociedad
this is one example of string and what I want to extract is the name of the team.
I've tried something like this,
houseteam = sscanf(str, '%s');
but it does not work, why?
You can use regexprep like you did in your post above to do this for you. Even though your post says to use sscanf and from the comments in your post, you'd like to see this done using regexprep. You would have to do this using two nested regexprep calls, and you can retrieve the team name (i.e. RealSociedad) like so, given that str is in the format that you have provided:
str = 'RealSociedad';
houseteam = regexprep(regexprep(str, '^<a(.*)">', ''), '</a>$', '')
This looks very intimidating, but let's break this up. First, look at this statement:
regexprep(str, '^<a(.*)">', '')
How regexprep works is you specify the string you want to analyze, the pattern you are searching for, then what you want to replace this pattern with. The pattern we are looking for is:
^<a(.*)">
This says you are looking for patterns where the beginning of the string starts with a a<. After this, the (.*)"> is performing a greedy evaluation. This is saying that we want to find the longest sequence of characters until we reach the characters of ">. As such, what the regular expression will match is the following string:
<ahref="/teams/spain/real-sociedad-de-futbol/2028/">
We then replace this with a blank string. As such, the output of the first regexprep call will be this:
RealSociedad</a>
We want to get rid of the </a> string, and so we would make another regexprep call where we look for the </a> at the end of the string, then replace this with the blank string yet again. The pattern you are looking for is thus:
</a>$
The dollar sign ($) symbolizes that this pattern should appear at the end of the string. If we find such a pattern, we will replace it with the blank string. Therefore, what we get in the end is:
RealSociedad
Found a solution. So, %s stops when it finds a space.
str = regexprep(str, '<', ' <');
str = regexprep(str, '>', '> ');
houseteam = sscanf(str, '%*s %s %*s');
This will create a space between my desired string.