How to modify a text file?

Unfortunately there is no way to insert into the middle of a file without re-writing it. As previous posters have indicated, you can append to a file or overwrite part of it using seek but if you want to add stuff at the beginning or the middle, you’ll have to rewrite it. This is an … Read more

Java arrays printing out weird numbers and text [duplicate]

Every object has a toString() method, and the default method is to display the object’s class name representation, then @ followed by its hashcode. So what you’re seeing is the default toString() representation of an int array. To print the data in the array, you can use: System.out.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(arr)); Or, you can loop through the array … Read more

Limit text length to n lines using CSS

There’s a way to do it using unofficial line-clamp syntax, and starting with Firefox 68 it works in all major browsers. body { margin: 20px; } .text { overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; /* number of lines to show */ line-clamp: 2; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; } <div class=”text”> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, … Read more

How to replace multiple substrings of a string?

Here is a short example that should do the trick with regular expressions: import re rep = {“condition1”: “”, “condition2”: “text”} # define desired replacements here # use these three lines to do the replacement rep = dict((re.escape(k), v) for k, v in rep.iteritems()) #Python 3 renamed dict.iteritems to dict.items so use rep.items() for latest … Read more

simple PHP to MYsql filtering

As I understand you receive plain text emails with data. Then you want to parse it. If your ‘labels’ are automatically generated and consistent then you can parse it quite easily… say something like this: Say you load your email text into a variable $email_content. $lines = explode(“\n”,$email_content); $array_of_values = array(); foreach ($lines as $line) … Read more