Re: Search and replace w/ ignoring arbitrary characters

2011-08-10 Thread Frank Müller
hi, thank you for your solution which works perfect for the data i have given. the trouble is: my data looks a little more complex as I have lots of accented characters so with your code I need to specify each of those characters in the tr/// part. I reckon the other way around would be more useful

Re: Search and replace w/ ignoring arbitrary characters

2011-08-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Frank Müller wrote: dear all, Hello, i want to make some search and replace within a string where I can define a set of characters, especially parenthesis, brackets etc., which are to be ignored. For example, I have the following string: sdjfh sdf sjkdfh sdkjfh sdjkf f[o]o(bar) hsdkjfh sdkl

Search and replace w/ ignoring arbitrary characters

2011-08-08 Thread Frank Müller
dear all, i want to make some search and replace within a string where I can define a set of characters, especially parenthesis, brackets etc., which are to be ignored. For example, I have the following string: sdjfh sdf sjkdfh sdkjfh sdjkf f[o]o(bar) hsdkjfh sdkljfhs sjfh sdkj sdjkfh sdjfh ska