Re: Grepping to remove text & code
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Thanks Bill, It's kind of a hard one to explain. :) It's for a forum that I've built. People can reply to previous posts by "quoting" them, as in other message boards. On my message board, the original poster will leave a "report" that is a
with some information in it and then what they type for their notes shows beneath that report (table). I want that table stripped out if someone replies ("quotes") a previous post. So, the original post may look like this: [quote]Originally posted by: gjk:
...etc.....bunch of table data..... Rest of original post (what that person typed outside of the table[/quote] I added the [quote] variable so that it does some displaying as quoted text once it's submitted. I also have it append the comment, YOUR NOTES APPEAR NEXT at the bottom of the table, so that if a person edits their own post, they can see where that table stops and their notes start. I want to strip out that table should someone reply to a post by quoting. The opening table code always begins with: And the place to end the stripping is with that comment. All of this text is saved to a database in a variable called [notes]. So, if I could do something like this: [grep search= from: to: and replace=] [notes][/grep] (replace with nothing) that would be ideal. Note that I don't want to remove the first part of the [notes] information, which is "[quote]Originally posted by: gjk:
". Hope that makes sense. I'm thinking this is not possible, but thought I'd see if grep would somehow work. Thanks! GK ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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Thanks Bill, It's kind of a hard one to explain. :) It's for a forum that I've built. People can reply to previous posts by "quoting" them, as in other message boards. On my message board, the original poster will leave a "report" that is a with some information in it and then what they type for their notes shows beneath that report (table). I want that table stripped out if someone replies ("quotes") a previous post. So, the original post may look like this: [quote]Originally posted by: gjk:
...etc.....bunch of table data..... Rest of original post (what that person typed outside of the table[/quote] I added the [quote] variable so that it does some displaying as quoted text once it's submitted. I also have it append the comment, YOUR NOTES APPEAR NEXT at the bottom of the table, so that if a person edits their own post, they can see where that table stops and their notes start. I want to strip out that table should someone reply to a post by quoting. The opening table code always begins with: