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Cool Find and Replace using regexp

arcster — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:21:37 +0000

So I saved an Excel file as a tab-separated text file. Then I wanted to add some html. The first column was all numbers followed by a tab and the second column.

I opened the text file in Dreamweaver and put the following in the “Find” box: \n([0-9]+)\t

That says “Look for a line break followed by a subexpression containing at least one numeric character followed by a tab”

I put the following in the Replace box: \n

That says “Replace it with a line break followed by a div tag followed by the subexpression (i.e, the number) followed by a closing div followed by an opening div for col2 followed by a tab”

Then the check the “Use regular expression” checkbox and hit “Replace All”

Quirky behavior noted: I couldn’t do one-at-a-time replacements. It only worked when I did Replace All. So make sure you have a back up handy.

Now running WordPress 2.8 Beta 2

arcster — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:15:16 +0000

The process of upgrading to the newest beta wasn’t terribly difficult. The instructions in the codex were easy enough. But I’m not seeing any great improvements. I still have to install the “disable canonical redirects” plugin. This seems to be … Continue reading →

Another helpful innovation from Internet Explorer

arcster — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:17:31 +0000

If an add-on is hosing Internet Explorer, you have to run Internet Explorer WITH ADD-ONS ENABLED in order to manage your add-ons.
McAfee Site Advisor is completely hosing a friend’s Acer Aspire. I advised installing Firefox, and somehow Site Advisor even glommed itself onto Firefox. The key difference is that Firefox start up items can be selectively disabled when Firefox is running in Safe Mode. Not so with IE. It’s all or nothing.

Hacked again

arcster — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:47:55 +0000

The blog was hacked again. Now I’m upgraded to wordpress 2.7. I hope I’m secure

Almost killed the blog

arcster — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:01:36 +0000

So I tried to upgrade my WordPress version. Didn’t go well. Partly my fault, partly poor WordPress documentation. The readme says something like “back up files like index.php that you modified” They could have at least mentioned the config files.

Firefox 3 – enhanced cookie protection?

arcster — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:42:52 +0000

Since I downloaded Firefox 3, my Webroot Spy Sweeper finds far few cookies to quarantine than before. Has anyone else noticed this?

Yahoo User Interface Library

arcster — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:04:28 +0000

I recently posted on arcster.com an example of a layout using CSS provided by the Yahoo User Interface library. This graphic shows the inheritance and nesting more clearly than the code.

Happy div-ing!

Follow up on the Lorain County Ohio CenturyTel DSL outage

arcster — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:55:53 +0000

Although the outage was frustrating, I must give credit to Ken Phillips of CenturyTel, who actually found my blog posting and sent me an email!

I found a bug!

arcster — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:27:10 +0000

I discovered a bug in Google Calendar. (In Firefox anyway; didn’t test on IE.) When you include a named day in an event, the day gets dropped and the event gets moved for the next week. So when I added an untimed event called “Palm Sunday” for 3/16/08, I got the message “Event Created.” But nothing showed up. So I went to add Easter on 3/23 and found an event called “Palm” scheduled for that date. I got the same result by adding Maundy Thursday on 3/20/08.

Workaround: Add your event in quotes.

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