Replacing is the action of searching a string for a sub-string and replacing it with a different string.
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Reading and Writing Configuration Files
I'm writing a small script which generates some configuration for devices. I want to have separate file, where I'm storing configuration, and change some strings during printing the content of the ...
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Javascript multiple replace
How do you replace all instances of one string with another in javascript?
Example:
someString = 'the cat looks like a cat'
anotherString = someString.replace('cat', 'dog');
results in ...
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how to replace special characters with the ones they're based on in PHP?
How do I replace:
"ã" with "a"
"é" with "e"
in PHP? Is this possible? I've read somewhere I could do some math with the ascii value of the base character and the ascii value of the accent, but I ...
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Fastest method to replace all instances of a character in a string
What is the fastest way to replace all instances of a string/character in a string in Javascript? A while, a for-loop, a regular expression?
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How do I replace the *first instance* of a string in .NET?
I want to replace the first occurrence in a given string.
How can I accomplish this in .NET?
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How to replace all points in a string in JavaScript
I want to replace all the occurances of a period (.) in a JavaScript string
For example, I have:
var mystring = 'okay.this.is.a.string';
I want to get: okay this is a string.
So far I tried:
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Case insensitive string replacement in JavaScript?
I need to highlight, case insensitively, given keywords in a JavaScript string.
For example:
highlight("foobar Foo bar FOO", "foo") should return "<b>foo</b>bar <b>Foo</b> ...
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Android: can't replace one fragment with another
I need to replace a fragment in one activity with another fragment, below is the layer file of the activity:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
...
android
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MySQL Regex Replace
Does anybody know how I could have, in a MySQL query, the same behaviour as the Regex.Replace function (for instance in .NET/C#)?
I need that because, as many people, I would like to count the number ...
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Is there an alternative to string.Replace that is case-insensitive?
I need to search a string and replace all occurances of %FirstName% and %PolicyAmount% with a value pulled from a database. The problem is the capitalization of FirstName varies. That prevents me from ...
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How to change diacritic characters to non-diacritic ones
I've found a answer how to remove diacritic characters on stackoverflow, but could you please tell me if it is possible to change diacritic characters to non-diacritic ones?
Oh.. and I think about ...
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XSLT Replace function not found
I am writing an XSLT transformation in which I wish to use the Replace function to do a regex match and replace.
However, Visual Studio 2008 reports that
'replace()' is an unknown XSLT ...
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C++ Replace part of a string with another string
Is it possible in C++ to replace part of a string with another string. Basically, I would like to do this
QString string("hello $name");
string.replace("$name", "Somename");
but I would like to use ...
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PHP - Replace colour within image
I hope someone can help,
I have made a script that masks images... however it is reliant on a colour to mask with ( 'green screen' style). The trouble is if the image that I am masking contains that ...
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highlight words in html using regex & javascript - almost there
I am writing a jquery plugin that will do a browser-style find-on-page search. I need to improve the search, but don't want to get into parsing the html quite yet.
At the moment my approach is to ...
