thanks, I appreciate your work on this..but in
addition to modifying the "catdog" word..I still need
it to keep its integrity within the sentence its used
in. Your code strips everything out.
Perhaps I wans't clear enough.
For instance...if I had>
a fun dogcat is a very nice DOgCat.
would give me:........
a fun dog,cat is a very nice DOg,Cat.
--- Josh Rosenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JustSome person wrote:
> > thanks, but as you suspected...I don't have access
> to
> > the underlying code. Thats the problems.
> >
> > this has to be done in template toolkit alone!
>
> Ok, well, I thought I'd be clever and work up a hack
> for you and I found a TT bug which makes it
> ineffective. It appears the split vmethod does not
> work correctly with args. I'll fire off a new email
> to the mailing list to notify Andy of this.
>
> Anyhow, you can technically do this search and
> replace by using .match and .split. (Probably not
> very efficient, but it gets the job done.) Here is
> the hack I wrote up. Note that I use the "split2"
> virtual method below which is the fixed version of
> the internal split vmethod. (Note, this can probably
> optimized a bit, but I don't have all day to work on
> this.) :)
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------------
> [% t = 'catdog fooo catdog bar abcd asdfkj CatDog
> akdjd catDog abc CATDOG' %]
>
> Start String is: [% t %]<br>
>
> [% temp_string = t %]
> [% all_matches = [] %]
> [% string_parts = [] %]
> [% WHILE temp_string %]
> [% matches = temp_string.match('(?i)(cat)(dog)')
> %]
> [% IF matches && matches.size() %]
> [% all_matches.push("${matches.0},${matches.1}")
> %]
> [% array = temp_string.split2(matches.join(''),
> 2) %]
> [% string_parts.push(array.0) %]
> [% temp_string = array.1 %]
> [% ELSE %]
> [% string_parts.push(temp_string) %]
> [% temp_string = '' %]
> [% END %]
> [% END %]
>
> [% new_string = '' %]
> [% FOREACH string IN string_parts %]
> [% IF loop.index() > all_matches.size() - 1 %]
> [% new_string = new_string _ string %]
> [% LAST %]
> [% END %]
> [% index = loop.index() %]
> [% new_string = new_string _ string _
> all_matches.$index %]
> [% END %]
>
> New String is: [% new_string %]<br>
>
-----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here's the split2 vmethod for those interested:
> $Template::Stash::SCALAR_OPS->{ split2 } =
> sub {
> my ($str, $split, @args) = @_;
> $str = '' unless defined $str;
> return [ defined $split ? split($split, $str,
> $args[0])
> : split(' ', $str, $args[0]) ];
> };
>
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