Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 50556
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texte = I know someone's going to ask about the multiple words so in 4 lines you can do this:[Text]My_String=A San Francisco school bus driver is facing a felony drunken driving charge after he allegedly ran a stop sign... [/text] [FormVariables] [Text]My_String=[grep search= [value] &replace= [value] ][My_String][/grep][/text] [/FormVariables]Demo: http://otis.kaiwi.com/SpiderBotLock/ wordsearch2.tpl?arg1=bus&arg2=felony&arg3=charge&arg4=stopOn Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Marc Kaiwi wrote:> I can do that in 2 lines, here's the code: > > [Text]My_String=A San Francisco school bus driver is facing a felony > drunken driving charge after he allegedly ran a stop sign [/text] > [grep search= [arg] &replace= yellow>[arg]][My_String][/grep] > > try: http://otis.kaiwi.com/SpiderBotLock/wordsearch.tpl?arg=bus > > : c) > > Hope this helps > > MK > > > On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 09:23 AM, WebCat @ Inkblot Media wrote: > >> Marc brought up a good point. >> >> If you search for an a you break it. This is because of my loop+grep >> feature. It is finding the a in the span I use to highlight. >> >> If someone could fix the GREP to excluse anything between < and > >> then it >> should be ok. >> >> You could also use a temp database and [convetwords], but you will >> need to >> pass some sort of session code or set a cookie to know what temp >> database >> goes with the user. This in my opinion is not that great of an idea >> for high >> traffic sites, because you will have a lot of temp databases. >> >> I do not know enough about webcats GREP, but I know in UNIX you can >> make >> grep do some amazing trick stuff. >> >> Let's all get our heads together and make a good snippet of code. >> >>Signed: Marc Kaiwi ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  2. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Brian Fries 2003)
  3. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  4. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  5. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rob Marquardt 2003)
  6. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  7. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  8. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (andy mowrey 2003)
  9. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  10. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  11. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rob Marquardt 2003)
  12. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  13. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (WebCat @ Inkblot Media 2003)
  14. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  15. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  16. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (WebCat @ Inkblot Media 2003)
  17. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (WebCat @ Inkblot Media 2003)
  18. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  19. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  20. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  21. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Christer Olsson 2003)
  22. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rajeev Kumar 2003)
  23. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Stuart Tremain 2003)
  24. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rajeev Kumar 2003)
  25. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Tim Robinson 2003)
  26. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  27. Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
I know someone's going to ask about the multiple words so in 4 lines you can do this:[text]My_String=A San Francisco school bus driver is facing a felony drunken driving charge after he allegedly ran a stop sign... [/text] [formvariables] [text]My_String=[grep search= [value] &replace= [value] ][My_String][/grep][/text] [/FormVariables]Demo: http://otis.kaiwi.com/SpiderBotLock/ wordsearch2.tpl?arg1=bus&arg2=felony&arg3=charge&arg4=stopOn Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Marc Kaiwi wrote:> I can do that in 2 lines, here's the code: > > [text]My_String=A San Francisco school bus driver is facing a felony > drunken driving charge after he allegedly ran a stop sign [/text] > [grep search= [arg] &replace= yellow>[arg]][My_String][/grep] > > try: http://otis.kaiwi.com/SpiderBotLock/wordsearch.tpl?arg=bus > > : c) > > Hope this helps > > MK > > > On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 09:23 AM, WebCat @ Inkblot Media wrote: > >> Marc brought up a good point. >> >> If you search for an a you break it. This is because of my loop+grep >> feature. It is finding the a in the span I use to highlight. >> >> If someone could fix the GREP to excluse anything between < and > >> then it >> should be ok. >> >> You could also use a temp database and [convetwords], but you will >> need to >> pass some sort of session code or set a cookie to know what temp >> database >> goes with the user. This in my opinion is not that great of an idea >> for high >> traffic sites, because you will have a lot of temp databases. >> >> I do not know enough about webcats GREP, but I know in UNIX you can >> make >> grep do some amazing trick stuff. >> >> Let's all get our heads together and make a good snippet of code. >> >>Signed: Marc Kaiwi ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi)

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