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Bruno Desthuilliers
bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Fri Feb 27 05:15:25 EST 2009
pranav a écrit :
> Greeting fellow pycoders,
>
> I have a script that browses large codes and replaces certain text
> with some other text. Of lately i observed an issue.Some of the
> original text were like
>
> <cfif IsDefined("attributes.SOFTPREREQ")>
> ,N'#attributes.SOFTPREREQ#'
> </cfif>
>
> My module does scan this code and suggests replacement to this code.
> But when i use the string.replace() method, it just fails. A
> string.find() for above code in the whole file returns code -1.
> Where am i going wrong?
Not posting a minimal (and if possible runnable) excerpt of your code
exhibiting the problem, along with test data.
>I figure it could be something to do with
> character encoding or else.
or with white spaces (including newlines characters), or whatever.
As a general guideline : any non-trivial text parsing requires a
non-trivial parser.
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