search and replace characters

[justride]

Hi,

I'd like to know if its possible to search and replace characters in a html file only if the fall within another criteria.

For example, I want to change \ slashes to / slashes but only for html links.

Thanks

 

[chessbot]

Do you mean using CSS? Or opening the file in some other setting (Perl, PHP, ASP, etc) and changing it there?

Perl is very good for string manipulation if that is what you want -- you might want to take a look.

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[tgreer]

CSS isn't a programming language. For client-side, I'd suggest using a RegEx. For that matter, I'd suggest a RegEx for server-side, too.



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[chessbot]

Yes... something like (in perl

while (<HTMLFILE>)
{
  $newline = s/<a[[^"]+"[^\\]*[(\\)[^\/]*]]*/\//gi;
  print NEWFILE $newline;
}

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[justride]

Thanks for the responses.

I have 1000 html files, all pretty short. Id like to execute some script or something like above, on all files to replace all the \ slashes in the links to /slashes.

somebody created a site with all links to documents, thats hosted on a windows server. it now needs to be compatible with linux. thanks guys!

 

[tgreer]

Oh. Any programming language will do. Even a good text editor with search and replace. TextPad comes to mind.

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[justride]

how can i tell the textpad to only replace if the slash is a link, between the <ahref= tags?
thanks
chris

 

[Foamcow]

EditPlus will let you open the files and run a Find/replace on all the files.


Try expanding the criteria when looking for the text to replace. Regular Expressions will let you look for something conditionally.

Replace slashes that sit AFTER "HREF" and stop replacing them up until the next ">" character.

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[tgreer]

Most good editors, including TextPad, have a macro facility. You write a macro that searches for a string, then replaces characters until, for example </a> is seen. TextPad will let you run a macro across all files in a folder.



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[jstreich]

If you are uploading to a *nix box then you want to look at the programs awk and sed... both are built to do that exsact thing....

If in Windows, there is a windows version of Emacs -- and emacs has a great Regular expression matching search... Though you would have to open each file in emacs...

In anycase this isn't really isn't an HTML question anylonger -- try posting it in a windows scripting/marcos or unixscipting forum....