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• smarter character replacement using ruby gsub and regexp

  - by agriciuc

  Hi guys! I'm trying to create permalink like behavior for some article titles and i don't want to add a new db field for permalink. So i decided to write a helper that will convert my article title from: "O "focoasa" a pornit cruciada, împotriva barbatilor zgârciti" to "o-focoasa-a-pornit-cruciada-impotriva-barbatilor-zgarciti". While i…

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• ruby eval('\1') of gsub possible?

  - by Horace Ho

  I try to replace a sub-str by the content of a valiable where its name matches the sub-str by: >> str = "Hello **name**" => "Hello **name**" >> name = "John" => "John" str.gsub(/\*\*(.*)\*\*/, eval('\1')) # => error! the last line in the code above is a syntax error. and: >> str.gsub(/\*\*(.*)\*\*/, '\1') =>…

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• lua gsub %b <-- how does this work?

  - by anon

  In the following lua code: function interp(s, tab) return (s:gsub('($%b{})', function(w) return tab[w:sub(3, -2)] or w end)) end what does the %b mean? and how does this match stuff like "${name}" ?

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• [Ruby on Rails] scribd_fu gsub error

  - by siulamvictor

  I have an application which allow user upload documents to Scribd. I tried to use scribd_fu in Rails. An error occurred when the controller try to save the model. NoMethodError in DocumentsController#processupload private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass here is the related controller def processupload @document =…

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• Why I can't substitute with '\\+' inside a string with gsub?

  - by Vítor Baptista

  Try the following code: s = '#value#' puts s.gsub('#value#', Regexp.escape('*')) # = '*' puts s.gsub('#value#', Regexp.escape('+')) # = '' Wtf? It looks like the char '\+' (returned by Regexp.escape) is completely ignored by gsub. How to fix this?

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• Backslashes in gsub (escaping and backreferencing)

  - by polygenelubricants

  Consider the following snippet: puts 'hello'.gsub(/.+/, '\0 \\0 \\\0 \\\\0') This prints (as seen on ideone.com): hello hello \0 \0 This was very surprising, because I'd expect to see something like this instead: hello \0 \hello \\0 My argument is that \ is an escape character, so you write \\ to get a literal…

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• gsub! Is modifying unspecified strings

  - by user335729

  I'm extracting some information from an XML file, and I want to perform some modifications on the data while keeping a copy of the original in a variable "origFile". This is what I have: require "rexml/document" include REXML doc = Document.new File.new(thePath) root = doc.root array = []…

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• Escaping '“' with regular double quotes using Ruby regex

  - by DavidP6

  I have text that has these fancy double quotes: '“' and I would like to replace them with regular double quotes using Ruby gsub and regex. Here's an example and what I have so far: sentence = 'This is a quote, “Hey guys!”' I couldn't figure out how to escape double quotes so I tried…

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• more ruby way of gsub from array

  - by aharon

  My goal is to let there be x so that x("? world. what ? you say...", ['hello', 'do']) returns "hello world. what do you say...". I have something that works, but seems far from the "Ruby way": def x(str, arr, rep='?') i = 0 query.gsub(rep) { i+=1; arr[i-1] } end Is there a more…

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• using gsub to modify output of xtable command

  - by stevejb

  Hello, my.mat <- cbind(1:5, rnorm(5), 6:10, rnorm(5)) colnames(my.mat) <- c("Turn", "Draw","Turn", "Draw") print(xtable(my.mat)) yields \begin{table}[ht] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{rrrrr} \hline & Turn & Draw & Turn & Draw \\ \hline 1 & 1.00…

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• Ignoring a character along with word boundary in regex

  - by DavidP6

  I am using gsub in Ruby to make a word within text bold. I am using a word boundary so as to not make letters within other words bold, but am finding that this ignores words that have a quote after them. For example: text.gsub(/#{word}\b/i, "<b>#{word}</b>") text =…

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• format string (postcode) in ruby

  - by noddy

  I need to re-format a list of UK postcodes and have started with the following to strip whitespace and capitalize: postcode.upcase.gsub(/\s/,'') I now need to change the postcode so the new postcode will be in a format that will match the following regexp: …

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• Replace all URL unless it is allowed

  - by ratamaster

  I had a regex that replaced all URLs from a given string: my_string = "www.example.com test www.mysite.com" my_string.gsub!(/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.(com|net|de|org|uk|biz|info|co.uk|es|de)(\/\S*)?/i,'(site hidden)') As a result of the above I get: "(site hidden) test…

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• Cleaning strings in R: add punctuation w/o overwriting last character

  - by spearmint

  I'm new to R and unable to find other threads with a similar issue. I'm cleaning data that requires punctuation at the end of each line. I am unable to add, say, a period without overwriting the final character of the line preceding the carriage return + line…

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• Parsing the output of "uptime" with bash

  - by Keek

  I would like to save the output of the uptime command into a csv file in a Bash script. Since the uptime command has different output formats based on the time since the last reboot I came up with a pretty heavy solution based on case, but there is surely a…

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• Rails fails to return scripts/stylesheets

  - by Lowgain

  This only happens on my local machine (Windows 7, Ruby 1.8.7). Occasionally rails will just stop returning my stylesheets/javascript and I'll get gross looking pages. If I navigate directly to those scripts, sometimes they work, and sometimes I get errors…

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• Regex for removing certain variable numeric values from some text

  - by stephemurdoch

  I want to substitute all 4 instances of the number 300 from the code below, with 470. <div> <object width="300" height="300"> <embed src="link-removed" width="300" height="300"></embed> </object> <p> …

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• How to get last 12 digits from a sting in MySQL?

  - by Nick Gorbikoff

  Hello. How would I get last 12 digits of a string using mysql? Let's say I have a varchar field with a tracking number, that may be anywhere from 5 to 20 varchars long. But I only need to select last 12 digits or less if there are less. so in a…

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• How to get last 12 digits from a string in MySQL?

  - by Nick Gorbikoff

  Hello. How would I get last 12 digits of a string using mysql? Let's say I have a varchar field with a tracking number, that may be anywhere from 5 to 20 varchars long. But I only need to select last 12 digits or less if there are less. so in a…

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• json parse error in ruby - unexpected token at

  - by RahTha

  Hi, I get errors at a lot of places when trying to retrieve ticker symbols for US companies from http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?callback=YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback&query=Wal-Mart I have tried to: resp =…

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• awk output to a file

  - by Harish

  I need help in moving the contents printed by awk to a text file. THis is a continuation of previous quesion I have to move all the contents into the same file so it is appending. To be specific nawk -v file="$FILE" 'BEGIN{RS=";"} …

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• Is there a method I can use across controllers and if so, how do I use it?

  - by Angela

  I have several controllers that take an instance of different classes each (Email, Call, Letter, etc) and they all have to go through this same substitution: @email.message.gsub!("{FirstName}", @contact.first_name)…

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• Assistance with Lua functions

  - by Josh

  As noted before, I'm relatively new to lua, but again, I learn quick. The last time I got help here, it helped me immensely, and I was able to write a better script. Now I've come to another question that I think…

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• How can I use a single-table inheritance and single controller to make this more DRY?

  - by Angela

  I have three models, Calls, Emails, and Letters and those are basically templates of what gets sent to individuals, modeled as Contacts. When a Call is made, a row in model in ContactCalls gets created. If an…

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• Selecting Update queries alone from list of files using shell script

  - by Harish

  I am trying to get Update queries from a list of files using this script.I need to take lines containing "Update" alone and not "Updated" or "UpdateSQL"As we know all update queries contain set I am using that…

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