Questions tagged [string-manipulation]
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Excel - How to split a string by a list of delimiters
As part of a board game logging tool, I want to be able to split a string.
The string may consist of the following:
Allowed characters: 00,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,C,B,R. Besides 00, any numbers will always be ...
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Best way to store multiple values from a running process into variables in bash
The problem
Starting a process will output sensitive information on the bash. I want to extract this value of an occuring pattern and assign it to bash variables. In concrete, starting the process ...
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In convert case, what is the difference between blend and normal version?
In notepad++, if you go to Edit > Convert Case to, you have entries like:
Proper Case
Proper Case (blend)
Sentence case
Sentence case (blend)
What is the difference between blend and "normal" ...
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replacing all lines between two patterns in MacOS sed
I'm a bit struggling with sed and would love someone to help...
I'm after replacing all lines between two patterns(foo,bar) inclusive) with the text REPLACEMENT.
sed -n '/foo/{:a;N;/bar/!ba;N;s/.*\...
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How does this find state actually work in moving a file up one directory?
Can someone explain how the string manipulation in this find statement actually works? My head is about to explode trying to figure it out. :-o
From: UNIX shell scripting: how to recursively move ...
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joining lines while adding white-spaces to select strings in CMD does not always work
here is an ordinary .bat that joins all lines and leaves a whitespace between the resulting strings.
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set row=
@For /F "EOL=|" %%x In ('^""%__AppDir__%find....
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In Bash how to get the position of a substring, within a string, starting the search at character position n
I am new to Bash scripting, I've used Visual Basic in Windows before and am looking for a bash equivalent string function for VB's inStr().
example in VB :
strMain = "abcABC123ABCabc"
searchStartPos ...
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How to extract a part of a line that is between two specific strings via a batch script
I am trying to extract strings which are between testid= and ].
Input text file
SEVERE TEST 11/18/2019 8:00:41 AM Could not find INPUT with [testid=2345]
SEVERE TEST 11/18/2019 5:02:11 AM Could ...
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replace sub-string with last special character, being (3rd part) of comma separated string
I have a string with comma separated values, like:
742108,SOME-STRING_A_-BLAHBLAH_1-4MP0RTTYE,SOME-STRING_A_-BLAHBLAH_1-4MP0-,,,
As you can see, the 3rd comma separated value has sometimes special ...
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How to format Excel cells to show only a certain part of the code my scanner scans from certain objects?
For ex:
When I scan an qr code it shows:
Column A1
vbmsavchjas asdhgaskhdgaskhdg_INX7642854858625
but I am only interest in the last characters:
Column B1
INX7642854858625
I can use afterwards in ...
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how to split a string in two then assign each segment into a variable
I have this code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "--------- Backup config files -------------"
find /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ \
-type f \
-regex '.*\.\(vmx\|nvram\|vmsd\|vmdk\)$' \
! -name '*-flat.vmdk' \
-...
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Use find and do command on filename without “./” prefix
Performing a cp on filenames in multiple subdirectories and prefix them with foo- leads to an error:
$ find my-dir -path "*/*" -execdir sh -c 'cp {} foo-{}' \;
cannot create regular file ‘foo-./...
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How to reverse a string in Excel?
Is there an Excel function (or macro) I can use to reverse a string. i.e. to turn these words into sdrow eseht?
Here is why I need that:
My strings are similar to John|XYZ Street|215|USA and I need ...
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sed: match a string between two different consecutive matches on all occurrencies
i have:
bananaOPENqwertyCLOSErandomtextOPENgrapesCLOSEwhateverOPENsunshineCLOSEgreymoon
this line could have many more OPEN and CLOSE strings in it.
I want to print the whole line with only ...
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How to add 'filler' characters up to N limit to a variable length string using Excel / Sheets formulae?
I have a list of strings (names / description text) that I need to add 'filler' characters to.
The maximum string length is 32 - for any text under that (in characters) I need to add special filler ...
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Surround certain string with specified characters using regex-capable editor
I need to format certain string in Sphinx's documentation H2 Header.
Example:
v-add-user should be replaced with
*********
v-add-user
*********
I search for needed string in Notepad++ (regex ^(...
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How to remove extension from pathname passed as {} in `find -exec`?
Given the situation that audio needs to be extracted from video files residing in subdirectories, how would one go about properly naming the resulting files?
The following one-liner works, but ...
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`tr` replaces more than I expected
I have a load of files from my teaching job that I want to put in OneDrive on a regular backup. My colleagues are bad at naming files, so they need a cleanup for OneDrive to take them.
The bit that ...
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Recursive and massive string replace inside Windows folder
I have a text file with oldstr<tab>newstring lines to replace inside all source files like this:
MyOldText (tab) MyNewText
MyOldText2 (tab) MyNewText2
How can I massively replace ...
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How can I insert the original matched pattern (OLD STRING) into the result (NEW STRING) Using Microsoft Word's Find/Replace Feature?
Microsoft Word's find/replace feature seems like it is many-to-one.
Suppose that we have a word document numbers surrounded by parentheses, such as (6)
and we want to remove the parentheses and place ...
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Busybox filter string list
Consider I have a list like this:
list='item1.service item2.service item3.target item4.service'
I need to filter this list to get something as:
item1 item2 item4
So, there are two things to notice:...
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Extracting filenames from svn console output
My Tortoise SVN SVN update command generally returns me this output:
C:\proj>svn update
Updating '.':
A 'some-file1.txt'
D 'some-file2.txt'
Restored 'some-file3.txt'
U 'some'file4.txt'
C 'some ...
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How to extract multiple urls from String?
I have a string like below
https://website.com/BTAE/2015/BTAE assignment jan 15.pdf²0ÔË'\„QI„"ÙP¾^ŒŸZ‡@Æ*]Ü.^‚vðƒ€Ù¾»Æš©Šñ‘€é•
ªÂIR#œÉgÉÛ^gMdÉ%9¬e˜Hžôb¿'0<ô ?lþzk…éÃÄórÈ;EW¦K³1…²ì¶ZFžŠÒô*ÄÖ\...
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Editing strings that are followed by a punctuation mark in Microsoft Word [closed]
I have a Microsoft Word document with two sections of text. The first is in paragraph form, the second is that paragraph form broken down into segments and placed in a table without punctuation. Is ...
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Linux command to remove the duplicate lines but keep the first occurrence
I have a text file. Each line contains a string. Some strings are repeated. I want to remove repetition but I want to keep the first occurrence. For example:
line1
line1
line2
line3
line4
line3
line5
...
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How to get string between the last two “/” symbols
I am using Bash. I have some string of paths, like /dir0/dir1/dir2/filename.ext and I want to extract the string dir2 in bash.
You can assume that the word I want to extract is located between the two ...
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How to split single row CSV?
I have a CSV file that imports like this:
Field1_Entry1,Field2_Entry1,...FieldN_Entry1,Field1_Entry2,Field2_Entry2...
I intend to have a new row after Field N so I get a table with N columns:
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Replace every 6th pipe in powershell
I realize I'm asking a similar question that was already asked and answered but I was not able to extrapolate the answer I needed since the regex and regex engine is different enough. I have hardware ...
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bash - Find difference between two variables
I have two variables: var1="1, 2, 3, 4" and var2="3, 4, 5, 6".
I'd like to get a new one, var3, containing the differences between $var1 and $var2.
The expected result should be var3=1, 2, 5, 6.
I ...
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Rename-Item using -Replace with multiple patterns
Consider the files:
File1 (Custom).jpg
File2(Custom).jpg
I need to rename the files to strip away" (Custom)" and/or "(Custom)" from their Name string (notice the space before the opening parenthesis)...
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Parse RegEx in Excel
Suppose I have some Excel spreadsheet with the following column:
A-345 hello
hola B-389
nice C-6231
what A-12287 who
just A-7819 C-45556
As you can see - I have a text combined ...
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How to insert CR before text pattern #:## in Excel cell text
I have large amounts of text in cells of a multi-row Excel spreadsheet. The text blocks in the cells are broken up by time stamps, e.g., “16:43” or, in some cases “4:43 PM”. I'd like to parse for the ...
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How to get only IP address from nmblookup for use in Bash script?
If I do:
nmblookup myServerName
I get:
192.168.6.106 myservername<00>
Since I want to use the IP returned from nmblookup myServerName in a Bash script, I'd like to know the best way to ...
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How to split initials from names, in MS Excel?
I have a list of (around 1200) names in MS Excel which are in several different formats.
Full names with 3 parts - ex: John Maynard Keynes
Full names with 4 parts - ex: Mohomad Hussain Mohomad Niyas ...
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Return specific matched (sub) value with grep in linux
I'm running a Zabbix agent (logging software) on Ubuntu and wish to ping an internal IPIP/GRE Tunnel to constantly measure the quality of the connection.
Now a Zabbix agent does not by default allow ...
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Camel-casing a 'dashed' string
I'm fairly inexperienced with *nix scripting, and I have a need to take a string with lowercase words separated by dashes and convert that to a new string with the dashes removed, and the first letter ...
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How to select the first number in cell in Excel?
I have a table that stores both a number and some text in a cell, and I want to do an arithmetic operation based on the numbers. So my table looks like this:
Number1 | Number2 | Product
2 ...
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Parsing a text string in Excel
I have the following strings of text in Excel cells and need to get the value with the "%" symbol. I have tried several approaches with FIND, MID, LEN, SUBSTITUTE, etc., but haven't found the ...
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How to split a string with quotes (like command arguments) in bash?
I have a string like this:
"aString that may haveSpaces IN IT" bar foo "bamboo" "bam boo"
I want to be able to split it like this:
aString that may haveSpaces IN IT
bar
foo
bamboo
bam boo
...
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MS Excel: MIN and FIND/SEARCH
I am trying to figure out what exactly excel is doing with these two functions.
I have many rows of strings in a single column. I want to pull out the first numeric in those strings. The first number ...
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Parsing (or Converting) Buffered Output
If a dynamic, text-based, CLI application doesn't include an option for producing unbuffered text output; what options do I have for parsing said output?
Can it be converted to a more appropriate ...
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Bash: return all the characters between the nth occurence of two different strings within a string
In a bash script (on Ubuntu 14.04) I'm running the command:
WP055="$(wget -qO - http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=CAZ055&y=1)"
Within the WP055 variable string there will be an ...
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Using 'diff' compare usernames from file1 to file2 containing emails
I am trying to identify active accounts over dead accounts and was wondering if diff along with grep or sed or regex can be used, instead of writing a long program.
File1 (usernames) ...
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Bash 4.3 Substring Negative Length on OS X
Bash 4.2 added support for negative substring lengths:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/abs-guide.html#SUBSTREXTR01
Example 37-12. Negative parameter in string-extraction construct
When the "...
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Extract the first 2 letters in each line of a file using a single command Terminal
I want to extract the first 2 letters of each line from a file and save it in a variable and print it in a single command. Can anyone help me with the command? Considering my file has 20 - 30 lines ...
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Extract a Whole Word From String Containing a Specific Letter or Character
I would like to extract only the word from a cell that contains a specific character ("=") within the text.
A2: Dolly made me a homemade=cake and some muffins
A3: we had cheese=cake for dinner
A4: ...
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Split folder paths in Excel to return the final folder
I have a single column in Excel which has a file and folder path. e.g. C:\1_Folder\2_Folder\3_Folder\my_file.txt
I would like to extract the name of the final folder and place this in a new column. ...
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Replace every nth instance of a character with a new line in Notepad++
I have a pipe delimited string of NAME|VALUE pairs looking something like this..
Name1|Value1|Name2|Value2|Name3|Value3
What I want to do is to replace every second instance of | with a new line so ...
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Only show part of logfile in bash script
OpenVPN log looks like this:
OpenVPN
CLIENT LIST
Updated,Sat Jun 20 04:20:07 2015
Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
[ A .... ]
ROUTING TABLE
Virtual Address,Common ...
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Swapping / exchanging two selections in Webstorm
Is there a way of swapping two selections under multiple carets like in sublime-text in the Jetbrains' editors like Webstorm.
The default shortcut in sublime text is CTRL+T for the transpose command.
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