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Replace element in array
I have a string
$sProducts = '2:1:-1:-1, 1:1:-1:-1, ..., n';
and an array
$aCount =>
(
[0] => 2
[1] => 3 .
.
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VBA PowerPoint Search and Replace Returning Error on Uneditable WordArt
The following function is part of a macro written in PowerPoint VBA that searches all of the files in a folder doing a global search and replace. The function works on a series of test files which ...
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Replace '\n' in a substr
I have a substr line which highlights a section of text using the instr command the resulting section of text is then output
But in the selection of text I get '\n' (spaces in otherwords!), I want to ...
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how can you tell if a replace operator was successful
I need to replace one of several strings, and I need to know which one was a successful replacement.
The most common suggestion online is to compare the original and new string to see if they're ...
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Removing non-underlined characters from a Word Doc range in VB.NET
I've got some text in a word document in a specific range object, and I'd like to remove any characters that are not underlined. I've tried two approaches, but they both seem to lead to different ...
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Using tr to replace by "\ " but only gets "\" symbol as an output
When typing the command :
echo 'Hello;World' | tr ';' '\\ '
Output : 'Hello\World'
Expected Output : 'Hello\ World'
Is there a valid way to obtain the expected output ?
Note that when using echo '...
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Powershell and -replace regex against blank lines '^$'
I like powershell's features, but not a big fan of MS Powershell documentation and supplied examples.
An internet searching for this kept coming up with how to remove when I wanted to replace empty ^$ ...
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Make a new column based on the count of rows, in an existing column, that meet a condition
My dataframe is called detections. One column is OBSERVER. That column contains the initials of 32 different people. Some of those observers are responsible for 1000+ observations (i.e. 1000+ lines ...
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How to use regex in R to shorten strings by one space
I have some old data files with a large number of writing errors. An example is attached below, where some of the numbers in the .dat file are 9 digits or characters long rather than the expected 8.
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Replacing several rows of data in a column efficiently using condition in a pipeline
I have the following dataframe:
df <- data.frame(
Form=rep(c("Fast", "Medium", "Slow"), each = 3),
Parameter =rep(c("Fmax", "TMAX", "B&...
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Why replace works with a boolean mask?
The R documentation for replace states:
replace replaces the values in x with indices given in list by those given in values. If necessary, the values in values are recycled.
Usage
replace(x, list, ...
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How to use the win32com library to modify a Word document and save it to a new Word file
I'm using Python with pywin32 to find and replace text in a Word document (a.docx).
The code finds the target string "123", but when I save the document with the replaced strings to a new ...
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Change micropython unicode notation from \xb0 to \u00b0 in string
I am using Micropython on the ESP32.
I have the following string, which includes the unicode character \xb0.
a = 'abc\xb0def'
First, I will need to change the notation to the \U00XX form, second I ...
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Replace values in multiple columns in a data frame based on conditions in another data frame? [duplicate]
I'm working with a data frame where the color of an object (red or green) was recorded in ordinal classes corresponding to percent coverage.
I am looking to replace all the classes with their ...
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Arabic Word Normalization and Search Ignoring Prefixes and Suffixes in quran app [closed]
I’m developing a Qur’an search application that allows users to search for Arabic words and find their occurrences across the Qur’an.
To improve accuracy, I added a feature that removes Arabic ...
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