[josm-dev] MapCSS: Substitute characters in a text

2013-04-06 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Within a MapCSS style I have to replace some characters in an arbitrary text by others. Example: Roma - Napoli should be changed to Roma -#x3E; Napoli. The text comes from a tag so I don't have any knowledge of its content in advance, but I have to get rid of some characters. Any ideas how

Re: [josm-dev] MapCSS: Substitute characters in a text

2013-04-06 Thread Jo
Recently support for regular expressions was added to the JOSM implementation of MapCSS. http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Styles/MapCSSImplementation#Evalexpressions Maybe you can accomplish what you need with regexp_match(regexp, string, flags) It will return a list of matching groups,

Re: [josm-dev] MapCSS: Substitute characters in a text

2013-04-06 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! I already tried that before asking on this list. But maybe I didn't use it correct, so I hoped that someone here could give me a hint. Martin 2013/4/6 Jo winfi...@gmail.com Recently support for regular expressions was added to the JOSM implementation of MapCSS.

Re: [josm-dev] MapCSS: Substitute characters in a text

2013-04-06 Thread Paul Hartmann
Hi, this should work: *[name=~/-/]{ _match: regexp_match((.*?)-(.*), tag(name)); text: concat(get(prop(_match), 1), -#x3E;, get(prop(_match), 2)); } Paul On 04/06/2013 12:21 PM, Martin Vonwald wrote: Hi! I already tried that before asking on this list. But maybe I didn't use it correct, so

Re: [josm-dev] MapCSS: Substitute characters in a text

2013-04-06 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Thanks, but you missed that part: The text comes from a tag so I don't have any knowledge of its content in advance, but I have to get rid of some characters. The Roma - Napoli was just an example. I don't know how many characters I have to replace. I just need to get rid of all , , [