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Eyeless
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:20 am   

Stripping unwanted words, punctuation
 
#var loot %replace( "%1", ",", "|")

works great for commas, but how do I build it if I want to remove all punctuation and other certain words... for example: , ! . AND and.

also if I just want the right most word in each string item, is this possible as well?
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LightBulb
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Joined: 28 Nov 2000
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:37 pm   
 
You can repeat the %replace as often as desired, changing any characters you don't want into characters which you do want. Among the things you can change to is a null string.
#VAR loot {%replace( "%1", ",", "|")}
#VAR loot {%replace({@loot}, "!", "")}
#VAR loot {%replace({@loot}, " and ", " ")}
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Vijilante
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Joined: 18 Nov 2001
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:08 pm   
 
Also you might want to use %subchar. For example:
#VAR loot {%subchar("%1", "!.?:()[]<>", "")

This method is character based so it doesn't work for a phrase/word like "and", but can neatly eliminate all punctuation.
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Valint
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:01 am   
 
> also if I just want the right most word in each string item, is this possible as well?

One way to do so would be this, though there are likely more elegant ways out there:
#LOOP %numitems( @loot) {#VAR loot %replaceitem( %word( %item( @loot, %i), %numwords( %item( @loot, %i))), %i, @loot)}
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Eyeless
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:24 am   
 
Thank you.
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