Re: Replacing a Word
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Sorry, messed up on the snippet.Derrick Puckett wrote:> Anup Setty wrote:>> > Hi,> > Can anyone help me with this problem?> > I need to write the data from a textarea into the database, while> > I am doing that, I want to replace a word with an html
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tag.> > The text from the textarea has [image] and when I write in the> > database I want it replaced by> >> > [image] =
![](images/image.gif)
> >> > thanks> >> > anup> >>> I worked out a little include that will do search and replace functions. call it as> follows [include file=textreplace.incl&original=[yourtext]&from=[image]&to=
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src=images/image.gif>]>> Hypothetically, if your textarea is [textarea], and you wished to append the information> to a database calle database.db to a field called field, you would call it as> follows:>> [append db=database.db]field=[include> file=textreplace.incl&original=[textarea]&from=[image]&to=
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src=images/image.gif>][/append]>> Please note a few things: First, due to the way the loop is set up, it will replace a> maximum of 100 occurances. This is arbitrary and can be raised.> Also, to use this, you will have to strip it of CRs (make it one long line), without a> linefeed at the end. I'm posting it here with CRs so people can understand what's> happening. Lastly, this routine probably strains the system somewhat. I reccomend you> don't use it to replace all occurances of a word in a full book, for example. It is far> from optimised.>> Here's the code snippet. Like I said, strip it of CRs and save it as textreplace.incl.> --I messed up. This is the correct snippet:[text show=f]x=[original][/text][text show=f]to=[to][/text][text show=f]from=[from][/text][loop start=1&end=100&advance=1]
y=[text show=t]y=[middlestartafter=[text]from[/text]&endbefore=][text]x[/text][/middle][/text][showif [text]y[/text]![text]x[/text]][text show=f]z=[middle startafter=&endbefore=[text]y[/text]][text]x[/text][/middle][/text][text show=f]a=[middle startafter=&endbefore=[text]from[/text]][text]z[/text][/middle][/text][text show=f]x=[text]a[/text][text]to[/text][text]y[/text][/text][/showif][showif [text]y[/text]=[text]x[/text]][break][/showif][/loop][text]x[/text]> -->> I hope you find this useful.>> -------------------------------------------------------------> Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.> To end your Mail problems go to
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Sorry, messed up on the snippet.Derrick Puckett wrote:> Anup Setty wrote:>> > Hi,> > Can anyone help me with this problem?> > I need to write the data from a textarea into the database, while> > I am doing that, I want to replace a word with an html
tag.> > The text from the textarea has [image] and when I write in the> > database I want it replaced by> >> > [image] =
> >> > thanks> >> > anup> >>> I worked out a little include that will do search and replace functions. call it as> follows [include file=textreplace.incl&original=[yourtext]&from=[image]&to=
src=images/image.gif>]>> Hypothetically, if your textarea is [textarea], and you wished to append the information> to a database calle database.db to a field called field, you would call it as> follows:>> [append db=database.db]field=[include> file=textreplace.incl&original=[textarea]&from=[image]&to=
src=images/image.gif>][/append]>> Please note a few things: First, due to the way the loop is set up, it will replace a> maximum of 100 occurances. This is arbitrary and can be raised.> Also, to use this, you will have to strip it of CRs (make it one long line), without a> linefeed at the end. I'm posting it here with CRs so people can understand what's> happening. Lastly, this routine probably strains the system somewhat. I reccomend you> don't use it to replace all occurances of a word in a full book, for example. It is far> from optimised.>> Here's the code snippet. Like I said, strip it of CRs and save it as textreplace.incl.> --I messed up. This is the correct snippet:[text show=f]x=[original][/text][text show=f]to=[to][/text][text show=f]from=[from][/text][loop start=1&end=100&advance=1]
y=[text show=t]y=[middlestartafter=[text]from[/text]&endbefore=][text]x[/text][/middle][/text][showif [text]y[/text]![text]x[/text]][text show=f]z=[middle startafter=&endbefore=[text]y[/text]][text]x[/text][/middle][/text][text show=f]a=[middle startafter=&endbefore=[text]from[/text]][text]z[/text][/middle][/text][text show=f]x=[text]a[/text][text]to[/text][text]y[/text][/text][/showif][showif [text]y[/text]=[text]x[/text]][break][/showif][/loop][text]x[/text]> -->> I hope you find this useful.>> -------------------------------------------------------------> Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.> To end your Mail problems go to .>> 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 -------------------------------------------------------------Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.To end your Mail problems go to .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
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