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Text/String manipulation is the term used to describe various operations applied to strings and/or text.

Text/String manipulation is the term used to describe various operations applied to strings and/or text. Often used with Regex or replace functions, concatination, etc.

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How to split strings on carriage return with C#?

I have an ASP.NET page with a multiline textbox called txbUserName. Then I paste into the textbox 3 names and they are vertically aligned: Jason Ammy Karen I want to be able to somehow take the names and split them into separate strings whenever i…
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excluding first and last lines from sed /START/,/END/

Consider the input: =sec1= some-line some-other-line foo bar=baz =sec2= c=baz If I wish to process only =sec1= I can for example comment out the section by: sed -e '/=sec1=/,/=[a-z]*=/s:^:#:' < input ... well, almost. This will comment the lines…
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How to get Git log with short stat in one line?

Following command outputs following lines of text on console git log --pretty=format:"%h;%ai;%s" --shortstat ed6e0ab;2014-01-07 16:32:39 +0530;Foo 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) cdfbb10;2014-01-07 14:59:48 +0530;Bar 1 file…
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How to extract two consecutive digits from a text field in MySQL?

I have a MySQL database and I have a query as: SELECT `id`, `originaltext` FROM `source` WHERE `originaltext` regexp '[0-9][0-9]' This detects all originaltexts which have numbers with 2 digits in it. I need MySQL to return those numbers as a…
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Shift a region or line in emacs

I'm looking for a way in emacs to shift text to the right or to the left by n spaces. A similar functionality that it in vim << or >>. It should work on a region or if no region is selected on a current line and not move the cursor from its current…
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Java regex: newline + white space

should be simple, but I'm going crazy with it. Given a text like: line number 1 line number 2 line number 2A line number 3 line number 3A line number 3B line number 4 I need the Java regex that deletes the line terminators then the new line…
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Edit configuration file through python

I need to edit a configuration file through python and i tried searching on stackoverflow and google and they don't cover my situation, since i need to replace lines in the file and perform matches in my search. Also, what i found covers how to do…
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sed - comment a matching line and x lines after it

I need help with using sed to comment a matching lines and 4 lines which follows it. in a text file. my text file is like…
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PHP Repairing Bad Text

This is something I'm working on and I'd like input from the intelligent people here on StackOverflow. What I'm attempting is a function to repair text based on combining various bad versions of the same text page. Basically this can be used to…
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Insert multiple lines of text before specific line using Bash

I am trying to insert a few lines of text before a specific line, but keep getting sed errors when I try to add a new line character. My command looks like: sed -r -i '/Line to insert after/ i Line one to insert \\ second new line to insert \\ …
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Using str_word_count for UTF8 texts

I have this text: $text = "Başka, küskün otomobil kaçtı buraya küskün otomobil neden kaçtı kaçtı buraya, oraya KISMEN @here #there J.J.Johanson hep. Danny:Where is mom? I don't know! Café est weiß for 2 €uros. My 2nd…
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How to split file on first empty line in a portable way in shell (e.g. using sed)?

I want to split a file containg HTTP response into two files: one containing only HTTP headers, and one containg the body of a message. For this I need to split a file into two on first empty line (or for UNIX tools on first line containing only CR…
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How to find words from one file in another file?

In one text file, I have 150 words. I have another text file, which has about 100,000 lines. How can I check for each of the words belonging to the first file whether it is in the second or not? I thought about using grep, but I could not find out…
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Obfuscating email in html

I'm currently developing a website, into which I've included a filter that attempts to obfuscate any e-mail addresses present in the webpages it serves. As it is now, it converts the addresses into images. I've also seen a few other methods in use;…
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How to extract part of a Base64 encoded string in MySQL?

I have a field in my database which is encoded. After using from_base64 on the field it looks like this: /////2017//06//21////file.txt There may be an undetermined number of strings at the beginning of the path,…
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