Re: grep question - removing spaces
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Thank you Marc and Bill,I will try your sugegstions shortly. From looking atyoursuggestions, I bet they will work far better for me thatwhat I was doing.Thanks!Dale----- Original Message Follows -----From: Marc Thompson
To: "WebDNA Talk" Subject: Re: grep question - removing spacesDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:57:20 -0600> I've also found that sometimes I need to grep> consecutively, not trying to get everything out with a> single statement. This grep removes space characters for> me: [Grep search= &replace=][/grep]> > Marc> > devaulw@onebox.com wrote:> > > I don't see anything clearly wrong, but I'd try it> > without the backslashes. > > 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!> > > -------------------------------------------> Marc Thompson> Software Engineer> Office of Information Technology> University of Utah> 801.585.9264> marc.thompson@utah.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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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Thank you Marc and Bill,I will try your sugegstions shortly. From looking atyoursuggestions, I bet they will work far better for me thatwhat I was doing.Thanks!Dale----- Original Message Follows -----From: Marc Thompson To: "WebDNA Talk" Subject: Re: grep question - removing spacesDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:57:20 -0600> I've also found that sometimes I need to grep> consecutively, not trying to get everything out with a> single statement. This grep removes space characters for> me: [Grep search= &replace=][/grep]> > Marc> > devaulw@onebox.com wrote:> > > I don't see anything clearly wrong, but I'd try it> > without the backslashes. > > 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!> > > -------------------------------------------> Marc Thompson> Software Engineer> Office of Information Technology> University of Utah> 801.585.9264> marc.thompson@utah.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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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