Re: [WebDNA] can webdna's [grep] find and replace ONLY the literal "+" char?

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2012

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 109017
interpreted = N
texte = > [grep search=3D[[url]+[/url]]&replace=3Dsomething]Wow, cool! You cracked one that I figured was never going to be =cracked) :-)> The URL's seem to work in many literal cases for some reason... =spaces, returns, etc..here ^^^ you are referring to using [url] wrappers around Webdna =tag/context params? I have been under the impression that SmithMicro =(or even PCS before them) years ago decided that [url] was their =official chosen method of escaping any and all tag/context params, and I =have been using it that way for years in many different situations. =Anyway, indeed, as you say, it works. IOW, I am not surprised.. and I =even had tried using [url]. But what I did not think of, and am =surprised by, is that it works used *inside* a grep character class. I =mean, an [url] wrapper like this makes sense in the context of my/our =understanding described in this paragraph:[grep search=3D[url][+][/url]&replace=3Dsomething]...but does not work.But AFAICT this:[grep search=3D[[url]+[/url]]&replace=3Dsomething]...*should* be finding/matching any character that is just/only one of =these three chars:%2BIf Webdna had any development cycles, I would ask those techs, should we =rely on "[grep search=3D[[url]+[/url]]..." behaving as it does today? =I'd rather it was fixed, if I was still attached.=20But something predictable (for now) is better than nothing.. thanks =:-)-Govinda= Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

> [grep search=3D[[url]+[/url]]&replace=3Dsomething]Wow, cool! You cracked one that I figured was never going to be =cracked) :-)> The URL's seem to work in many literal cases for some reason... =spaces, returns, etc..here ^^^ you are referring to using [url] wrappers around Webdna =tag/context params? I have been under the impression that SmithMicro =(or even PCS before them) years ago decided that [url] was their =official chosen method of escaping any and all tag/context params, and I =have been using it that way for years in many different situations. =Anyway, indeed, as you say, it works. IOW, I am not surprised.. and I =even had tried using [url]. But what I did not think of, and am =surprised by, is that it works used *inside* a grep character class. I =mean, an [url] wrapper like this makes sense in the context of my/our =understanding described in this paragraph:[grep search=3D[url][+][/url]&replace=3Dsomething]...but does not work.But AFAICT this:[grep search=3D[[url]+[/url]]&replace=3Dsomething]...*should* be finding/matching any character that is just/only one of =these three chars:%2BIf Webdna had any development cycles, I would ask those techs, should we =rely on "[grep search=3D[[url]+[/url]]..." behaving as it does today? =I'd rather it was fixed, if I was still attached.=20But something predictable (for now) is better than nothing.. thanks =:-)-Govinda= Govinda

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