That’s somewhat tricky, but you could do it this way: $html = <<< HTML <div><p>The CEO of the Dexia bank <em>has</em> just decided to retire.</p></div> HTML; I’ve added an emphasis element just to illustrate that it works with inline elements too. Setup $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->formatOutput = TRUE; $dom->loadXML($html); $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); $nodes … Read more
In Perl, in the substitution operator, as well as many other operators, you can substitute the delimiter for almost any punctuation character, such as s#/$## s=/$== s!/$!! Which one to use when is a matter of what you need at the time. Preferably you choose a delimiter that does not conflict with the characters in … Read more
The JSTL fn:replace() does not use a regular expression based replacement. It’s just an exact charsequence-by-charsequence replacement, exactly like as String#replace() does. JSTL does not offer another EL function for that. You could just homegrow an EL function yourself which delegates to the regex based String#replaceAll(). E.g. package com.example; public final class Functions { private … Read more
The easy answer is no. The problem that you’re encountering stems from the fact that the asterisk * is a special character when used with the SET search and replace method. It matches multiple characters in a limited, but still useful, way. You can learn about that here. The hard answer is Yes! I will … Read more
Strings don’t have any methods on them that allow a change to the value of the string. In other words: strings are immutable. When you call str.replace a new string is built and returned. >>> s1 = ‘Rohit’ >>> s2 = s1.replace(‘R’, ‘M’) >>> >>> s1 ‘Rohit’ >>> s2 ‘Mohit’ As you can see s1 … Read more
Here’s one way: $print = preg_replace(‘/^([^,]*).*$/’, ‘$1’, $print); Another: list($print) = explode(‘,’, $print); Or: $print = explode(‘,’, $print)[0];
Use Regex with pattern: \{([^\}]+)\} Regex yourRegex = new Regex(@”\{([^\}]+)\}”); string result = yourRegex.Replace(yourString, “anyReplacement”);
This: $newBody = str_replace(“​”, “”, $newBody); presumes the text is HTML entity encoded. This: $newBody = str_replace(“\xE2\x80\x8C”, “”, $newBody); should work if the offending characters are not encoded, but matches the wrong character (0xe2808c). To match the same character as #8203; you need 0xe2808b: $newBody = str_replace(“\xE2\x80\x8B”, “”, $newBody);
The reason is that max works by taking the first value as the “max seen so far”, and then checking each other value to see if it is bigger than the max seen so far. But nan is defined so that comparisons with it always return False — that is, nan > 1 is false … Read more