Re: grep question - removing spaces
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texte = Bill,----- Original Message Follows -----From: devaulw@onebox.comTo: "WebDNA Talk"
Subject: Re: grep question - removing spacesDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:41:56 -0400> I don't see anything clearly wrong, but I'd try it withoutthe backslashes.I could be wrong, but I thought I needed to escape those inorder for those to work since a dash for example defines arange as in a-zA-z0-9 - without the backslash it doesn'twork (at least for the dash). It also seems the order of the \- and \_ are important aswhen I had them in a different order it didn't work at all.As currently listed, the grep will not remove embeddedspaces. I'm stumped!> Bill> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Dale's eLists > Sent: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:44:35 -0500> To: "WebDNA Talk" > Subject: grep question - removing spaces> > Hello,> > I have a grep statement where I am wanting to only allow> letters, numbers, dashes and underscores. No spaces or> other special charactors (this will eventually be used as> a username for email addresses).> > Using:> > [text show=t]ScreenName=[grep> search=[^0-9a-zA-Z\-\_]&replace=][nickname][/grep][/text]> > if there is an embedded space, it does not get removed.> What have I done wrong with this? > > Thank you!> > ----------------------------------------------------------> --- 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/> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------> --- 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/-------------------------------------------------------------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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Bill,----- Original Message Follows -----From: devaulw@onebox.comTo: "WebDNA Talk" Subject: Re: grep question - removing spacesDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:41:56 -0400> I don't see anything clearly wrong, but I'd try it withoutthe backslashes.I could be wrong, but I thought I needed to escape those inorder for those to work since a dash for example defines arange as in a-zA-z0-9 - without the backslash it doesn'twork (at least for the dash). It also seems the order of the \- and \_ are important aswhen I had them in a different order it didn't work at all.As currently listed, the grep will not remove embeddedspaces. I'm stumped!> Bill> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Dale's eLists > Sent: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:44:35 -0500> To: "WebDNA Talk" > Subject: grep question - removing spaces> > Hello,> > I have a grep statement where I am wanting to only allow> letters, numbers, dashes and underscores. No spaces or> other special charactors (this will eventually be used as> a username for email addresses).> > Using:> > [text show=t]ScreenName=[grep> search=[^0-9a-zA-Z\-\_]&replace=][nickname][/grep][/text]> > if there is an embedded space, it does not get removed.> What have I done wrong with this? > > Thank you!> > ----------------------------------------------------------> --- 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/> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------> --- 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/-------------------------------------------------------------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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