now you see Bryan,
I just knew there was someone intelligent out there! I knew I missing
something. Funny how the little functions drop out of memory aint it? :)
cheers again. May English pints rain down upon thee.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Love [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 August 2001 17:40
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: regexp for swear filter
>
>
> don't waste your time with regular expressions; in this case
> you already
> know what you want to replace and regular expressions are for
> times when you
> don't know exactly what your searching for. Use
> replaceList(), like this:
>
> badList = "apple,banana,car";
> goodList = "*****,******,***";
>
> text = "this banana drove the car into the apple at high
> speed. The apple
> was upset."
>
> listReplace(lcase(text),badList,goodList);
>
> result = "this ****** drove the *** into the **** at high
> speed, The ****
> was upset."
>
>
> Bryan Love ACP
> Internet Application Developer
> Telecommunication Systems Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:54 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: regexp for swear filter
>
>
> Dudes and laydeez,
>
> Would anyone perchance know how to create a regexp to replace
> instances of
> specific list items in a block of text, with their asterisked
> counterparts
> (of the same length)?
>
> What I mean by this:
>
> list = "apple|banana|car"
>
> text = "this banana drove the car into the apple at high
> speed. The apple
> was upset."
>
> result = "this ****** drove the *** into the **** at high
> speed, The ****
> was upset."
>
> I want to be able to do this with a single regexp, rather
> than list looping
> over the text and replacing the index of the current loop
> iteration with its
> repeatstring('*', len(index)) counterpart - which is slow if
> I have to do
> this for many text blocks on the same page..
>
> would the following work (bearing in mind I'm not great at regexps)?
>
> rereplacenocase(thistext, "#list#", "#rereplace(list, '[^\|]', '*',
> 'ALL')#", "ALL")
>
> hmmm even I'm not sure about that.
>
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