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Nat
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Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:29 pm
Problem with %replace
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Hi there! I apologise in advance if a solution to this has already been posted. I searched the forum but I coulden't find what I was looking for.
My problem is this:
A have a line like:
Contains the following 'abc1, def2, 123a, 456b'.
Im trying to strip the commas from this line and then make a trigger to fire off that new line but I simply can't manage to get %replace to replace the commas with a blank space. Any help is greatly appriciated.
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Taz
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Joined: 28 Sep 2000
Posts: 1395
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:42 pm
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#show %replace("abc1, def2, 123a, 456b",","," ")
#var test {abc1, def2, 123a, 456b}
#show %replace(@test,","," ")
both show:
abc1 def2 123a 456b
abc1 def2 123a 456b |
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Nat
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Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:52 pm
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Ah thanks, I guess I didn't explain my problem properly though!
The line:
Contains the following 'abc1, def2, 123a, 456b'.
Will quite often be different from time to time, but from what i understand I cant use a wildcard in functions.
So, what i need to do is make a trigger to replace the commas from a line like this:
Contains the following '*, *, *, *'.
but have that trigger also match this same line
Contains the following '*, *, *, *, *, *, *'.
There could be between 1 and 30(ish) *'s in the line and i need a trigger that could match that and then put each of the *'s in a seperate variable. I had tried doing it and wasnt succeeding and though that if i stripped out the commas i could get it to work but then i couldent even get %replace to work because i cant use a wildcard. I hope that makes sense! |
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Vitae
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Joined: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 673
Location: New York
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:27 pm
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I think what Taz meant to show you in his subtle way and make you come to the conclusion on your own is use the trigger to populate the test variable
#trigger {^Contains the following ~'(*)~'.$} {#var test {%1};#echo %replace( @test, ",", "")}
Note to Taz: in reality, yours was generating:
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| abc1 def2 123a 456b |
which has 2 spaces between the info rather than 1 which what I think was needed. Tho overall I don't think this answers the true question at all.
Might be needing one of those recuring thingies in the trigger...drawing a blank on what it is *mutter* was used just recently in another post. I'll see if I can find it.
Don't think i'll be any help tho cause special things in triggers and me just never seem to work. To this day I still can't get #cond to work for me.
EDIT:
reparse: execute new trigger pattern on same line as before (only usable with #COND)
SOOOO....can someone else help after this? ;-) Cause since he wants the info in a variable, i'll assume he wants to do something else with it. Which it would help if he gave a better idea of what exactly he wants and is trying to do. |
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Taz
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Joined: 28 Sep 2000
Posts: 1395
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:36 pm
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Yep of course I used " " as the replacement, should have been "" instead. Yes you're correct that the simplistic testing shows that there is nothing wrong with %replace and that if you follow some simple rules you can apply it to your required problem as you have shown.
* EDIT: no need for others to help, your answer is the correct answer, take the whole lot between the ' using a * and perform the replace on it * |
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