Re: How do I specify a & character in Grep?
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = new webcat 4 contextworks neat. Ever use BBEdit? You can search & replace like this: find apple , replace with banana. You know how to do that kind of thing.but what if you want to (for example) replace any and all occurences of ' NATURALSIZEFLAG=[0-9]' with *nothing*? (Where [0-9] means *any* single digit number. The you would do this in the BBedit find/replace diolog box: SEARCH FOR: NATURALSIZEFLAG=[0-9] REPLACE WITH: (thats replace with *nothing*) turn on grep hit the replace all button.There are many other things you can do with regular expressions (grep). It means searching/replacing but while using *variables*. Now webcat can do this kind of 'smart searching/replacing' via [grep].I don't know how accurate the techno terms I used are, but you get the idea :-)-John Kim Ingram wrote:> Sorry for the stupidity if I missed something, but what the heck is Grep? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On > > Behalf Of WebDNA Support > > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 1:51 AM > > To: WebCatalog Talk > > Subject: Re: How do I specify a & character in Grep? > > > > > > >And then some more hours trying to get around the ampersand thing. > > >I know Ampersand is not allowed in browser stuff, but, webcat source > > >never gets to the browser so I thought, since it is called grep I > > >could use the standard \ to delimit a reserved character. Who > > >woulda thunk that I should use [url] in a grep expression. > > > > Yes, but [url] is how you get 'special' characters past the parser in > > all situations. The text that finally makes it down into the grep > > expression doesn't contain [url], it contains the interpreted value > > after the [url] has been executed. > > > > >If I do use [url] to expand bad things, how do I search for [url] > > >using grep, if that is reserved instead? Do i have to use > > >[raw][url][raw]? Will that even work???? > > > > Yes, that's exactly it. > > > > >Seems to me that \& is more to the point for a regex search expression. > > > > Yes, except that & is *always* a parameter delimiter in WebDNA. We > > can't tell the difference between & in your grep expression, and & as > > a delimiter between parameters to the context. This similar > > discussion could be made around how do I get & into a database > > field or how do I search for & in a record. We had to choose > > something, and what we chose is consistent with a model that > > webmasters are already familiar with (we know it's kind of ugly and > > arcane, but it's *so* much better than trying to learn *two* > > different models for delimiters. Consistency is key here). > > > > Technical Support ********************************** > > Smith Micro, Internet Solutions Div | eCommerce (WebCatalog) > > 16855 West Bernardo Drive, #380 | ------------------------- > > San Diego, CA 92127 | Software & Site Development > > WebCatalog Support: (858) 675-0632 | http://www.smithmicro.com > > Fax: (858) 675-0372 ********************************** > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > > the mailing list
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new webcat 4 contextworks neat. Ever use BBEdit? You can search & replace like this: find apple , replace with banana. You know how to do that kind of thing.but what if you want to (for example) replace any and all occurences of ' NATURALSIZEFLAG=[0-9]' with *nothing*? (Where [0-9] means *any* single digit number. The you would do this in the BBedit find/replace diolog box: SEARCH FOR: NATURALSIZEFLAG=[0-9] REPLACE WITH: (thats replace with *nothing*) turn on grep hit the replace all button.There are many other things you can do with regular expressions (grep). It means searching/replacing but while using *variables*. Now webcat can do this kind of 'smart searching/replacing' via [grep].I don't know how accurate the techno terms I used are, but you get the idea :-)-John Kim Ingram wrote:> Sorry for the stupidity if I missed something, but what the heck is Grep? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On > > Behalf Of WebDNA Support > > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 1:51 AM > > To: WebCatalog Talk > > Subject: Re: How do I specify a & character in Grep? > > > > > > >And then some more hours trying to get around the ampersand thing. > > >I know Ampersand is not allowed in browser stuff, but, webcat source > > >never gets to the browser so I thought, since it is called grep I > > >could use the standard \ to delimit a reserved character. Who > > >woulda thunk that I should use [url] in a grep expression. > > > > Yes, but [url] is how you get 'special' characters past the parser in > > all situations. The text that finally makes it down into the grep > > expression doesn't contain [url], it contains the interpreted value > > after the [url] has been executed. > > > > >If I do use [url] to expand bad things, how do I search for [url] > > >using grep, if that is reserved instead? Do i have to use > > >[raw][url][raw]? Will that even work???? > > > > Yes, that's exactly it. > > > > >Seems to me that \& is more to the point for a regex search expression. > > > > Yes, except that & is *always* a parameter delimiter in WebDNA. We > > can't tell the difference between & in your grep expression, and & as > > a delimiter between parameters to the context. This similar > > discussion could be made around how do I get & into a database > > field or how do I search for & in a record. We had to choose > > something, and what we chose is consistent with a model that > > webmasters are already familiar with (we know it's kind of ugly and > > arcane, but it's *so* much better than trying to learn *two* > > different models for delimiters. Consistency is key here). > > > > Technical Support ********************************** > > Smith Micro, Internet Solutions Div | eCommerce (WebCatalog) > > 16855 West Bernardo Drive, #380 | ------------------------- > > San Diego, CA 92127 | Software & Site Development > > WebCatalog Support: (858) 675-0632 | http://www.smithmicro.com > > Fax: (858) 675-0372 ********************************** > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://search.smithmicro.com/
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