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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Wildcards in SED Post 302090864 by ghostdog74 on Wednesday 27th of September 2006 07:32:06 PM
Old 09-27-2006
Alternative , without regular expression

Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
string = "some text in front From here in the middle to here at the end"
fromindex = string.index("From here")
toindex = string.index("to here")
tobeReplace = string[ fromindex : toindex + len("to here") ]
string.replace( tobeReplace , "new text")

Output:
Code:
'some text in front new test at the end'

 

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TRANSLITERATOR_TRANSLITERATE(3) 					 1					   TRANSLITERATOR_TRANSLITERATE(3)

Transliterator::transliterate - Transliterate a string

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public string Transliterator::transliterate (string $subject, [int $start], [int $end]) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style transliterator_transliterate (mixed $transliterator, string $subject, [int $start], [int $end]) Transforms a string or part thereof using an ICU transliterator. PARAMETERS
o $transliterator - In the procedural version, either a Transliterator or a string from which a Transliterator can be built. o $subject - The string to be transformed. o $start - The start index (in UTF-16 code units) from which the string will start to be transformed, inclusive. Indexing starts at 0. The text before will be left as is. o $end - The end index (in UTF-16 code units) until which the string will be transformed, exclusive. Indexing starts at 0. The text after will be left as is. RETURN VALUES
The transfomed string on success, or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Converting escaped UTF-16 code units <?php $s = "u304Au65E9u3046u3054u3056u3044u307Eu3059"; echo transliterator_transliterate("Hex-Any/Java", $s), " "; //now the reverse operation with a supplementary character $supplChar = html_entity_decode('&#x1D11E;'); echo mb_strlen($supplChar, "UTF-8"), " "; $encSupplChar = transliterator_transliterate("Any-Hex/Java", $supplChar); //echoes two encoded UTF-16 code units echo $encSupplChar, " "; //and back echo transliterator_transliterate("Hex-Any/Java", $encSupplChar), " "; ?> The above example will output something similar to: 1 uD834uDD1E SEE ALSO
Transliterator::getErrorMessage, Transliterator::__construct. PHP Documentation Group TRANSLITERATOR_TRANSLITERATE(3)
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