Re: Replacing a Word

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1999

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 24429
interpreted = N
texte = This is to Derrick,thanks a lot, it worked excellent, but I had to change a little bit here andthere.Thanks again.anup>> Anup Setty wrote:>> > Hi,> > Can anyone help me with this problem?> > I need to write the data from a textarea into the database, while> > I am doing that, I want to replace a word with an html tag.> > The text from the textarea has [image] and when I write in the> > database I want it replaced by> >> > [image] = > >> > thanks> >> > anup> >>> I worked out a little include that will do search and replace functions.call it as> follows [includefile=textreplace.incl&original=[yourtext]&from=[image]&to= src=images/image.gif>]>> Hypothetically, if your textarea is [textarea], and you wished to appendthe information> to a database calle database.db to a field called field, you wouldcall it as> follows:>> [append db=database.db]field=[include> file=textreplace.incl&original=[textarea]&from=[image]&to= src=images/image.gif>][/append]>> Please note a few things: First, due to the way the loop is set up, itwill replace a> maximum of 100 occurances. This is arbitrary and can be raised.> Also, to use this, you will have to strip it of CRs (make it one longline), without a> linefeed at the end. I'm posting it here with CRs so people can understandwhat's> happening. Lastly, this routine probably strains the system somewhat. Ireccomend you> don't use it to replace all occurances of a word in a full book, forexample. It is far> from optimised.>> Here's the code snippet. Like I said, strip it of CRs and save it astextreplace.incl.> --> [text show=f]x=[original][/text]> [text show=f]to=[to][/text]> [text show=f]from=[from][/text]> [loop start=1&end=100&advance=1]>
y=[text show=t]y=[middle> startafter=[text]from[/text]&endbefore=][text]x[/text][/middle][/text]> [showif [text]y[/text]![text]x[/text]]> [text show=t]z=[middlestartafter=&endbefore=[text]y[/text]][text]x[/text][/middle][/text]>> [text show=t]a=[middle> startafter=&endbefore=[text]from[/text]][text]z[/text][/middle][/text]> [text show=t]x=[text]a[/text][text]to[/text][text]y[/text][/text]> [/showif]> [showif [text]y[/text]=[text]x[/text]]> [break]> [/showif]> [/loop]> [text]x[/text]> -->> I hope you find this useful.>>> -------------------------------------------------------------> Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant MessagingServer.> To end your Mail problems go to .>> 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>-------------------------------------------------------------Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.To end your Mail problems go to .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  Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Replacing a Word (Anup Setty 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Brian Boegershausen 1999) Replacing a Word (Anup Setty 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Anup Setty 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Rob Marquardt 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Anup Setty 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Derrick Puckett 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Derrick Puckett 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Jesse Williams Proudman 1999) Re: Replacing a Word (Derrick Puckett 1999) Replacing a Word (Anup Setty 1999)

This is to Derrick,thanks a lot, it worked excellent, but I had to change a little bit here andthere.Thanks again.anup>> Anup Setty wrote:>> > Hi,> > Can anyone help me with this problem?> > I need to write the data from a textarea into the database, while> > I am doing that, I want to replace a word with an html tag.> > The text from the textarea has [image] and when I write in the> > database I want it replaced by> >> > [image] = > >> > thanks> >> > anup> >>> I worked out a little include that will do search and replace functions.call it as> follows [includefile=textreplace.incl&original=[yourtext]&from=[image]&to= src=images/image.gif>]>> Hypothetically, if your textarea is [textarea], and you wished to appendthe information> to a database calle database.db to a field called field, you wouldcall it as> follows:>> [append db=database.db]field=[include> file=textreplace.incl&original=[textarea]&from=[image]&to= src=images/image.gif>][/append]>> Please note a few things: First, due to the way the loop is set up, itwill replace a> maximum of 100 occurances. This is arbitrary and can be raised.> Also, to use this, you will have to strip it of CRs (make it one longline), without a> linefeed at the end. I'm posting it here with CRs so people can understandwhat's> happening. Lastly, this routine probably strains the system somewhat. Ireccomend you> don't use it to replace all occurances of a word in a full book, forexample. It is far> from optimised.>> Here's the code snippet. Like I said, strip it of CRs and save it astextreplace.incl.> --> [text show=f]x=[original][/text]> [text show=f]to=[to][/text]> [text show=f]from=[from][/text]> [loop start=1&end=100&advance=1]>
y=[text show=t]y=[middle> startafter=[text]from[/text]&endbefore=][text]x[/text][/middle][/text]> [showif [text]y[/text]![text]x[/text]]> [text show=t]z=[middlestartafter=&endbefore=[text]y[/text]][text]x[/text][/middle][/text]>> [text show=t]a=[middle> startafter=&endbefore=[text]from[/text]][text]z[/text][/middle][/text]> [text show=t]x=[text]a[/text][text]to[/text][text]y[/text][/text]> [/showif]> [showif [text]y[/text]=[text]x[/text]]> [break]> [/showif]> [/loop]> [text]x[/text]> -->> I hope you find this useful.>>> -------------------------------------------------------------> Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant MessagingServer.> To end your Mail problems go to .>> 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>-------------------------------------------------------------Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.To end your Mail problems go to .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  Anup Setty

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