Re: weening me off overwriting form variables. John Peacock?
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I don't remember Joe,but (and maybe this is obvious)You now can simply check if a var has not been passed in and then initialize it with [text][showif [url][myVar][/url]=[url][raw][myVar][/raw][/url]] [text]myVar=what_I_have_been_assigning_since_webcat3[/text] [/showif] You could write an include that goes thru a list of vars (a list you stick in the include tag itself ...&initialize=var1,var2,var3]) and use listwords and a modified version of the above within the listwords to initialize all those vars (assuming all need to equal null, or some common value.)Or why not simply use [text secure=F]myVar=somevalueWhichYouCanStillOverrideEvenWithWebcat4[/text] since that is now an official documented feature (It is only NOT RECOMMENDED by SM because newbies might shoot themselves in the foot with it - ie using an insecure var to determine authorized access, etc.)(which reminds me, maybe this is what you were asking for in the 1st place:+++++++++++++++++++I nearly forgot, you need to escape the & in the replace string, other wise it doesn't work right. That makes itSearch: \[text ([^\]]#)\] or \[text ([^]]*)\] (for BBEdit) Replace: \[text \0\&secure=f\]John PeacockJohn Peacock wrote: > > The string [^\]] (or [^]] apparently under BBEdit) is a negative set. > It will match every character that is not in the set, that is to say, > anything not a right bracket. Whether you have to escape the ] in the > expression is based on the exact implementation. I just tested it in > MultiEdit with the various example strings you (and others) included, > and discovered that MultiEdit will die screaming if you do not escape > the ], but that my search strings worked like I designed them. > > I can also highly recommend the O'Reilly RegEx book. One of the things > about Perl especially is that after enough experience with regex, you > discover that almost everything can be fixed with the correct regex. > > HTH > > John Peacock > > Kenneth Grome wrote: > > > > >On 5/3/00 3:55 pm, Jereme Claussen so noted... > > > > > >>BBEdit has an option titled Use Grep which uses standard RegEx for > > >>those concerned.. > > >> > > >>>Or if you have an editor with regex support, you can make two passes: > > >>> > > >>>Search: \[text ([^\]]#)\] > > >>>Replace: \[text \0&secure=f\] > > > > > >Slight modifications are needed for BBEdit Lite 4.6 (and I assume BBEdit > > >as well): > > > > > >Search: \[text ([^]]*)\] > > >Replace: \[text \1\&secure=f\] > >Joseph D'Andrea wrote:> In anticipation of someday installing the WebCat 4 we purchased way > back when... I need to remove the coding technique where we relied > on eing able to overwrite incoming form variables. You know, the > technique where you set text variables with the same name as incoming > form variables to empty so you can display input forms pretty. > > I think John Peacock, or someone, posted a solution to this problem > that I have since lost. I tried searching the archives, but haven't > found it yet. > > Does anyone remember the solution that John posted? > > John? > > Thanks, > ___Joe___ > _________________________________________________ > Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com > WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century > http://www.west21.com/ > _________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I don't remember Joe,but (and maybe this is obvious)You now can simply check if a var has not been passed in and then initialize it with [text][showif [url][myVar][/url]=[url][raw][myVar][/raw][/url]] [text]myVar=what_I_have_been_assigning_since_webcat3[/text] [/showif] You could write an include that goes thru a list of vars (a list you stick in the include tag itself ...&initialize=var1,var2,var3]) and use listwords and a modified version of the above within the listwords to initialize all those vars (assuming all need to equal null, or some common value.)Or why not simply use [text secure=F]myVar=somevalueWhichYouCanStillOverrideEvenWithWebcat4[/text] since that is now an official documented feature (It is only NOT RECOMMENDED by SM because newbies might shoot themselves in the foot with it - ie using an insecure var to determine authorized access, etc.)(which reminds me, maybe this is what you were asking for in the 1st place:+++++++++++++++++++I nearly forgot, you need to escape the & in the replace string, other wise it doesn't work right. That makes itSearch: \[text ([^\]]#)\] or \[text ([^]]*)\] (for BBEdit) Replace: \[text \0\&secure=f\]John PeacockJohn Peacock wrote: > > The string [^\]] (or [^]] apparently under BBEdit) is a negative set. > It will match every character that is not in the set, that is to say, > anything not a right bracket. Whether you have to escape the ] in the > expression is based on the exact implementation. I just tested it in > MultiEdit with the various example strings you (and others) included, > and discovered that MultiEdit will die screaming if you do not escape > the ], but that my search strings worked like I designed them. > > I can also highly recommend the O'Reilly RegEx book. One of the things > about Perl especially is that after enough experience with regex, you > discover that almost everything can be fixed with the correct regex. > > HTH > > John Peacock > > Kenneth Grome wrote: > > > > >On 5/3/00 3:55 pm, Jereme Claussen so noted... > > > > > >>BBEdit has an option titled Use Grep which uses standard RegEx for > > >>those concerned.. > > >> > > >>>Or if you have an editor with regex support, you can make two passes: > > >>> > > >>>Search: \[text ([^\]]#)\] > > >>>Replace: \[text \0&secure=f\] > > > > > >Slight modifications are needed for BBEdit Lite 4.6 (and I assume BBEdit > > >as well): > > > > > >Search: \[text ([^]]*)\] > > >Replace: \[text \1\&secure=f\] > >Joseph D'Andrea wrote:> In anticipation of someday installing the WebCat 4 we purchased way > back when... I need to remove the coding technique where we relied > on eing able to overwrite incoming form variables. You know, the > technique where you set text variables with the same name as incoming > form variables to empty so you can display input forms pretty. > > I think John Peacock, or someone, posted a solution to this problem > that I have since lost. I tried searching the archives, but haven't > found it yet. > > Does anyone remember the solution that John posted? > > John? > > Thanks, > ___Joe___ > _________________________________________________ > Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com > WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century > http://www.west21.com/ > _________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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