substitution

We had a lot of strings which contained the same sub-string, from sentences about checking the log or how to contact support, to branding-like strings containing the company or product name. The repetition was causing a few issues for ourselves (primarily typos or copy/paste errors) but it also causes issues in that it increases the amount of text our translator has to translate. The solution I came up with went something like this: public class ExpandingResourceBundleControl extends ResourceBundle.Control { public static final ResourceBundle.Control EXPANDING = new

The substitute function in R creates a language object in the form of a tree that one can parse. How can I create the tree from scratch using list or else to then give it to eval? # substitute gives a tree representation of the expression a=1; b=2; e1 = substitute(a+2*b) eval(e1) #gives 5 as expected e1 # is type language e1[[1]] # this is `+` e1[[2]] # this is 'a' type symbol e1[[3]] # this is type language e1[[3]][[1]] # this is `*` etc.... I would like to know how I can reconstruct the e1 object programmatically. Ideally I create an object of intricated lists with the correct object in them

I have a bunch of sass files and my designer used the wrong syntax. I wanted :margin-top 1px but he did margin-top: 1px So I easily wrote a sub command: :rubydo sub! /([\w-]+):/,':\1' So that works and fixes all the colons and moves them in the place I want. I have about 50 sass files in a stylesheets directory. How can I run this command on all my files in one shot? I'm not really sure how to go about this in vim . Maybe something to do with grep ? I couldn't tell ya. See this: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/editing.html#:argdo I learned this command right now, but the help is clear.

My current script will take an expression, ex: my $expression = '( a || b || c )'; and go through each boolean combination of inputs using sub/replace, like so: my $keys = join '|', keys %stimhash; $expression =~ s/($keys)\b/$stimhash{$1}/g; So for example expression may hold, ( 0 || 1 || 0 ) This works great. However, I would like to allow the variables (also in %stimhash) to contain a tag, *. my $expression = '( a* || b* || c* )'; Also, printing the keys of the stimhash returns: a*|b*|c* It is not properly substituting/replacing with the extra special character, *. It gives this warning: Use

Example of what I want to combine: sVar=$(whoami) sVar=${sVar^} sVar=${sVar::1} Output: Uppercase first character of username Requirements: One-liner Do the rest of the processing with parameter substitutions except for the initial command substitution above $(whoami) I realize this can be done with tr, sed, awk, printf, cut, etc.; but that is not the point of the question. Any help is appreciate! This isn't the real code or anything indicative of what I am wanting to actually do. I will often default (or try to) to using just one command over concatenating multiple commands. I've seen other

I want to change more than a line of a file. It is a CSS file and I want to swap out a section to another. This is a snippet from the file: /*** Debugging ***/ draw-button-bounding-rects: false; draw-button-rects: false; debug-touch-points: false; draw-reactive-areas: false; } MImAbstractKeyAreaStyle.Landscape { /*** Label Setttings ***/ label-margin-top: 0.6mm; label-margin-left-with-secondary: -1; /* not used, labels are centered horizontally */ secondary-label-separation: 0; /*** Behaviour ***/ touchpoint-horizontal-gravity: 32px; touchpoint-vertical-gravity: 20px; /*** Key Geometry ***/

This question already has an answer here: I just assigned a variable, but echo $variable shows something else 6 answers For string matching purposes I need to define a bash variable with leading spaces. I need to define this starting from an integer, like: jj=5 printf seems to me a good idea, so if I want to fill spaces up to 6 character: jpat=`printf " %6i" $jj` but unluckly when I am trying to recall the variable: echo $jpat the leading whitespaces are removed and I only get the $jj integer as it was. Any solution to keep such spaces? (This is equivalent to this: v=' val'; echo $v$v . Why