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Re: Regular Expression help?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:07:22 GMT
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:51:08PM +0000, Andy Lynch wrote:
> > Anyway, the actual regexp here is:
> >
> > <img[^>]+border="[0-9]*"
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> > Hope that will help.
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> I think this will only find img tags that have a border property, but
> I need to find img tags that are missing the border property.
doh, of course. However, unless your editor allows to do negative
lookaheads, I don't think you can use a regexp to find a missing border
tag.
> > By the way, if you need to edit hundreds of lines, using an
> > automated process might save you hours and hours of time. Drop me an
> > email if you want some help with that :)
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> Thanks for the kind offer. :-) I suspect once we can isolate the lines
> that are offensive that it will only be a very few that actually need
> to be changed. Also, the same editor that allows us to use RegExpr for
> searching will allow us to use a syntax similar to perl for
> replacement text. Of course I need to be able to capture the offending
> text to be able to creatively replace it! hehehe.
hmmm. One way to do it would be to replace all the img tags that DO
have the border attribute, with something else, like "<!img" or
something... then, edit all the remaining img tags (because they are
missing the border attribute), and then replace all the "<!img" tags
with "<img" again.
:)
Dan
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) Ah. I had my little O'Reilly Perl 5 pocket reference out and was playing with "zero-width positive/negative look-ahead/behind assertion"s before I began this thread, but since I haven't used them before I wasn't sure how they worked. In any (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I think this will only find img tags that have a border property, but I need to find img tags that are missing the border property. (...) Thanks for the kind offer. :-) I suspect once we can isolate the lines that are offensive that it will (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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