Questions tagged [character-replacement]
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R - check for substring within string, if true then add value to a different variable
I want to do something that I am sure is very simple, but I have little R experience.
I have a variable with value that are different strings. I want to check if each value contains a substring, and, if so, to add another value to a DIFFERENT…
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Microsoft Editor's  object replacement character
I am using Microsoft Editor feature (Windows 11) a lot - I really depend on it, and I find all its features equally useful (Spelling Suggestions, Grammar Suggestions), but I find especially useful to me suggestions regarding spacing (this falls…
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Given an offset dictionary and a string, create the BIO tags
Given (i) a string text and (ii) a dictionary made of offset and the substring y:
text =…
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Replace tablespoon/s and teaspoon/s
I'm using BBEdit or Visual Code and I'm not too experienced with regex but would like to do a simple find and replace to all instances of "teaspoon(s)" (as in teaspoon or teaspoons) and "tablespoon(s)" with "tsp" and "tbsp".
replace:
1 tablespoon…
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Google Sheets Problem w/ Substring Replacement Text Using =Left
Trying to fix some malformed data. Here is the formula I'm using:
={"Final Name";ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(ISBLANK(E3:E),,LEFT(E3:E,find(".",E3:E)-2))))}
Here is a sample of the data in colE. The list indent is not part of the data, it's just…
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Is there a Python function to make all possible substititutions between two equal length strings?
I am trying to make all possible substitutions between a reference and a test sequence. The sequences will always be the same length and the goal is to substitute Test characters with those of Ref.
Ref= "AAAAAAAAA"
Test="AAATAATTA"
Desired…
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AWS Lambda replacing certain characters from attachments of multipart-form data with replacement character(U+FFFD)
I am using AWS lambda function to receive a multipart request with attachments and upload them to S3.
But Lambda function replaces few characters with the replacement character and so the attachment getting corrupt.
I checked on a PNG file.
sample…
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Javascript: How to replace all "\" character to ""
I try to replace "\" character to empty "" but I can't do it. How to solve it?
Here is my code
abc = abc.replace('\','');
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Remove all occurence of ';' in C++ comments with SED
I'm new to sed and I can't manage to use it to remove all ';' characters in comments of C++ files, ie lines starting or containing the string "//" (I already convert "/* ... */" comments to "// ..." comments).
For example :
// lorem; ipsum ;…
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Replace special characters in multiple strings between two strings in PowerShell
Background: I changed filenames of .mp4 videos to lowercase and replaced the special characters as well as spaces. Now I have to change the associated URLs inside of .txt files in a similar manner. There are many text files which contains plenty of…
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VI replace a custom number of characters from a custom position
There is a text file like…
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Replacing Characters in C
This is part of a lab assignment
I have to implement the following function...
void replaceChar(char s[], char c,int len)
Description: Replace every character of s with c. len indicates the length of s.
I submit this to the autograder that my…
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Javascript character restriction - invalid characters show up temporarily
I am using Javascript to restrict the characters of various text entry fields as a form of client-side validation as well as improved usability. I am using the following code to do this:
function validNumbers(caller) {
var exp = /^[\d.]+/g;
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How to reduce code's margin (=number of spaces) using Regex?
Recently, on Notepad++, I want to reduce number of spaces at begin of lines.
I searched a Regular Expression, but I don't find any.
On a array(=tab) of Notepad++, I have following lines
ligne normale
ligne…
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using powershell to get a string out of one file and replace this value in another file
i'm trying to get a string out of a file and want this string to be inserted/replaced in another file with Powershell commands
file1: "buildnumber": "[it's a value that contains the last commit id]"
file2: "buildnumber": "xxxxxxxx"
File 1…
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