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Fill placeholders in file in single pass

I have a skeleton text file with placeholder strings: blah blah blah blah $PLACEHOLDER_1$ blah $PLACEHOLDER_2$ and so on. Specific "form" of placeholders does not matter -- I may change them to whatever most comfortable for specific…
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For what purpose is Android TextUtils used?

I was wondering - "why do others use TextUtils in many purposes?" - but I am not clear about this. The Developer site says that it is a simple string splitter. I understand this but I don't know how to use this in a practical manner or what purposes…
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Kotlin: isNullOrEmpty vs TextUtils.isEmpty

In Kotlin (Android project), which is preferable to use ? isNullOrEmpty or TextUtils.isEmpty and why I believe they do the exact thing and are "null" safe, right ?
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Proper use for TextUtils.commaEllipsize

I'm looking for some sample code on how to use this correctly with a TextView. the only thing I found in my Google searching was this test unit for the TextUtils class. some guidance will be much appreciated. EDIT: I looked over the answer I got…
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batch process docx to markdown

Any ideas on how I can get: textutil -convert html file.doc -stdout | pandoc -f html -t markdown -o file.md so that I can execute the command on a folder and all it's subfolders and so that the markdown file is placed in the same folder as the…
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How can I make GNU sort put uppercase letters first?

I want everything else to remain identical, only have uppercase letters come first.
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CodenameOne - encoding HTML string

My CodenameOne app needs to pass HTML code to HTML elements inside a BrowserComponent with Javascript, so characters have to be escaped more than one time, they have to be encoded in fact. I need something like TextUtils.htmlEncode(). In Codename it…
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Android TextUtils.split to deliver a fixed length string[]

I cannot get a string broken into fixed length chunks and added to an ArrayList ... the code below iterates through as expected, but all the messageToSplit[] upto the last one are null. The last one actually has a value in it. In the example below…
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Output multiple converted files to custom directory using textutil

I need to batch convert multiple docx files to txt files and place them in a custom directory using textutil. It seems I can do this with a single file, but not with multiple files. If I set an -output path while converting multiple files, it will…
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Search and replace in Shell

I am writing a shell (bash) script and I'm trying to figure out an easy way to accomplish a simple task. I have some string in a variable. I don't know if this is relevant, but it can contain spaces, newlines, because actually this string is the…
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Grep not recognising all newlines

I'm totally new to scripting - so new in fact that most of what I do script ends up being put in Mac's Automator as 'Run Shell Script.' So please forgive, well, everything. Basically, I am building a web-corpus. So, I'm downloading .html files from…
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Missing TextUtils from Struts2 Library

My project was using older versions of Struts2 (2.0.x) Now we are planning to upgrade Struts2 version which has some improvements and bug fixes. I updated the pom.xml as per that. However I found out that in my old strtus2-core lib, there's…
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Android Method TextUtils.regionMatches

I has found this android method TextUtils.regionMatches But for some reason, so it is not clear how this function works. The function can be found…
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I was learning django and I dont understand what's happening here, what is the logic

if removepunc == "on": punctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,<>./?@#$%^&*_~''' analyzed = "" for char in djtext: if char not in punctuations: analyzed = analyzed + char params = {'purpose':'Removed Punctuations',…
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Initialising a string in setOnClickListener body causes the button to not work

I've made a signup activity in android development which is supposed to make an account in the app using the given credentials. Here's the original code: signUpBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override …
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