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Remove Tildes and Text

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jeffsal

jeffsal

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Oct 29, 2005
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The following is a typical string in which I would like to remove any text between tildes and aslo remove all tildes.

BEFORE------------------------------------
Code[CRIM ] ~CIV~COLL~CORP~CRIM~EP~FAM~MISC~PI~PROB~RE~TAX~TINS~TRAF~WPOA~

TODO'S

Review File: 10 Days

Other[ ] ~20 Days~30 Days~

Close File: 60 Days

Other[ ] ~90 Days~120 Days~180 Days~
----------------------------------------------
AFTER

Code[CRIM ]
TODO'S

Review File: 10 Days

Other[ ]

Close File: 60 Days

Other[ ]
---------------------------------------------

Thanks for any help.














 
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regexp to the rescue:
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript">

var a = "Code[CRIM ] ~CIV~COLL~CORP~CRIM~EP~FAM~MISC~PI~PROB~RE~TAX~TINS~TRAF~WPOA~\n\nTODO'S\n\nReview File: 10 Days\n\nOther[ ] ~20 Days~30 Days~\n\nClose File: 60 Days\n\nOther[ ] ~90 Days~120 Days~180 Days~";
alert(a);
a = a.replace([!]/\~([A-Za-z0-9 ]+\~)+/[/!]g, "");
alert(a);

</script>

<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

-kaht

[small](All puppies have now found loving homes, thanks for all who showed interest)[/small]
 
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or you could use the split function...

Code: 
var a = "Code[CRIM ] ~CIV~COLL~CORP~CRIM~EP~FAM~MISC~PI~PROB~RE~TAX~TINS~TRAF~WPOA~\n\nTODO'S\n\nReview File: 10 Days\n\nOther[ ] ~20 Days~30 Days~\n\nClose File: 60 Days\n\nOther[ ] ~90 Days~120 Days~180 Days~";
alert( a.split("~")[0] );



*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]"quote goes here"[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]
 
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The split function will still leave all the code that was between the tildes though, like CIV, COLL, CORP, etc...

-kaht

[small](All puppies have now found loving homes, thanks for all who showed interest)[/small]
 
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That worked great. I got another one for ya. Any text NOT enclosed in brackets [] make bold. Thanks again.
 
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kaht, have you tried it?

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>

<script>
var a = "Code[CRIM ] ~CIV~COLL~CORP~CRIM~EP~FAM~MISC~PI~PROB~RE~TAX~TINS~TRAF~WPOA~\n\nTODO'S\n\nReview File: 10 Days\n\nOther[ ] ~20 Days~30 Days~\n\nClose File: 60 Days\n\nOther[ ] ~90 Days~120 Days~180 Days~";
alert( a.split("~")[0] );
</script>

</body>
</html>



*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]"quote goes here"[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]
 
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the output from that is:
Code: 
Code[CRIM ]

The OP wanted output of:
Code: 
Code[CRIM ]
TODO'S

Review File: 10 Days

Other[ ]

Close File: 60 Days

Other[ ]
It would be difficult using the split function to determine what was between the tildes after it is split because every line like ~CIV~COLL~CORP~CRIM~EP~FAM~MISC~PI~PROB~RE~TAX~TINS~TRAF~WPOA~ would appear as multiple entries in the resulting array.

-kaht

[small](All puppies have now found loving homes, thanks for all who showed interest)[/small]
 
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I got another one for ya. Any text NOT enclosed in brackets [] make bold. Thanks again.
 
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That worked great. I got another one for ya. Any text NOT enclosed in brackets [] make bold. Thanks again.
Click to expand...

jeffsal, have you attempted doing this yourself yet? I made up the original example because I like doing regexp, they can be challenging. However, Tektips is not intended to be a site to get your work done for you. We're here to help, not do your work for you. Your last post came as across like a "okay, that works - now do this one".

If you'd like to make a stab at it yourself and post the code that you're having problems with I'd be happy to tell you what to fix.

-kaht

[small](All puppies have now found loving homes, thanks for all who showed interest)[/small]
 
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Sorry. I didn't mean it to come off that way. I have only had a few times when I needed a little script and really have not had the time to learn it. Thanks again for the previous help.
 
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