I want to convert a "title" which can have whitespaces in it like " this is a Test title " to a string where all whitespaces are removed and the words which were previously separated by the whitspaces are all starting with capital letters.
The result of the above string should be "ThisIsATestTitle".
Goal is to create a string which then can be used as a folder name for the filesystem.
In MsAccess VBA:
replace(strconv(" this is a Test title ",vbProperCase)," ","")
returns ThisIsATestTitle
Thanks #June7 for giving this useful info:
If expression in query or textbox, use 3 in place of vbProperCase.
Goal is to create a string which then can be used as a folder name for the filesystem.
Then you have a few more things to do.
Non-trailing spaces are not a problem, but a lot of other characters are. In particular, you need to remove all occurences of <, >, :, ", /, \, |, ? and *.
There are a few special edge cases as well: For example, you can't use any of the "reserved names" (COM1 etc.) and your name must not end with a period. For a full list, see Microsoft's official documentation:
Windows App Development: Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces
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in Word VBA Debug.Print "31#1" Like "31#1" returns me False but using any other sign (e.g. ,&%'...) in both strings gives me True. However I need to use # here. How can I escape # so that Like operator matches my string correctly?
From Microsoft documentation:
To match the special characters left bracket ([), question mark (?), number sign (#), and asterisk (*), enclose them in brackets.
In your case:
Debug.Print "31#1" Like "31[#]1"
I am trying to write a search that queries our directory server running openldap.
The users are going to be searching using the first or last name of the person they're interested in.
I found a problem with accented characters (like áéíóú), because first and last names are written in Spanish, so while the proper way is Pérez it can be written for the sake of the search as Perez, without the accent.
If I use '(cn=*Perez*)' I get only the non-accented results.
If I use '(cn=*Pérez*)' I get only accented results.
If I use '(cn=~Perez)' I get weird results (or at least nothing I can use, because while the results contain both Perez and Pérez ocurrences, I also get some results that apparently have nothing to do with the query...
In Spanish this happens quite a lot... be it lazyness, be it whatever you want to call it, the fact is that for this kind of thing people tend NOT to write the accents because it's assumend all these searches work with both options (I guess since Google allowes it, everybody assumes it's supposed to work that way).
Other than updating the database and removing all accents and trimming them on the query... can you think of another solution?
You have your ~ and = swapped above. It should be (cn~=Perez). I still don't know how well that will work. Soundex has always been strange. Since many attributes are multi-valued including cn you could store a second value on the attribute that has the extended characters converted to their base versions. You would at least have the original value to still go off of when you needed it. You could also get real fancy and prefix the converted value with something and use the valuesReturnFilter to filter it out from your results.
#Sample object
dn:cn=Pérez,ou=x,dc=y
cn:Pérez
cn:{stripped}Perez
sn:Pérez
#etc.
Then modify your query to use an or expression.
(|(cn=Pérez)(cn={stripped}Perez))
And you would include a valuesReturnFilter that looked like
(!(cn={stripped}*))
See RFC3876 http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/rfc/rfc3876.txt for details. The method for adding a request control varies by what platform/library you are using to access the directory.
Search filters ("queries") are specified by RFC2254.
Encoding:
RFC2254
actually requires filters (indirectly defined) to be an
OCTET STRING, i.e. ASCII 8-byte String:
AttributeValue is OCTET STRING,
MatchingRuleId
and AttributeDescription
are LDAPString, LDAPString is an OCTET STRING.
The standard on escaping: Use "<ASCII HEX NUMBER>" to replace special characters
(https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4515#page-4, examples https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4515#page-5).
Quote:
The <valueencoding> rule ensures that the entire filter string is a
valid UTF-8 string and provides that the octets that represent the
ASCII characters "*" (ASCII 0x2a), "(" (ASCII 0x28), ")" (ASCII
0x29), "\" (ASCII 0x5c), and NUL (ASCII 0x00) are
represented as a backslash "\" (ASCII 0x5c) followed by the two hexadecimal digits
representing the value of the encoded octet.
Additionally, you should probably replace all characters that semantically modify the filter (RFC 4515's grammar gives a list), and do a Regex replace of non-ASCII characters with wildcards (*) to be sure. This will also help you with characters like "é".
How to search word start \word in vim. I can do it using the find menu. Is there any other short cut for this?
Try:
/\\word
in command mode.
You can search for most anything in your document using regular expressions. From normal mode, type '/' and then start typing your regular expression, and then press enter. '\<' would match the beginning of a word, so
/\<foo
would match the string 'foo' but only where it is at the beginning of a word (preceded by whitespace in most cases).
You can search for the backslash character by escaping it with a backslash, so:
/\<\\foo
Would find the pattern '\foo' at the beginning of a word.
Not directly relevant (/\\word is the the correct solution, and nothing here changes that), but for your information:
:h magic
If you are for a pattern with many characters with special meaning to regexes, you may find "nomagic" and "very nomagic" mode useful.
/\V^.$
will search for the literal string ^.$, instead of "lines of exactly one character" (\v "very magic" and the default \m "magic" modes) or "lines of exactly one period" (\M "nomagic" mode).
The reason searching for something including "\" is different is because "\" is a special character and needs to be escaped (prepended with a backslash)
Similarly, to search for "$100", which includes the special character "$":
Press /
Type \$100
Press return
To search for "abc", which doesn't include a special character:
Press /
Type abc
Press return
How can I find words like and, or, to, a, no, with, for etc. in a sentence using VB.NET and remove them. Also where can I find all words list like above.
Note that unless you use Regex word boundaries you risk falling afoul of the Scunthorpe (Sfannythorpe) problem.
string pattern = #"\band\b";
Regex re = new Regex(pattern);
string input = "a band loves and its fans";
string output = re.Replace(input, ""); // a band loves its fans
Notice the 'and' in 'band' is untouched.
You can indeed replace your list of words using the .Replace function (as colithium described) ...
myString.Replace("and", "")
Edit:
... but indeed, a nicer way is to use Regular Expressions (as edg suggested) to avoid replacing parts of words.
As your question suggests that you would like to clean-up a sentence to keep meaningfull words, you have to do more than just remove two- and three letter words.
What you need is a list of stop-words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word
A comma seperated list of stop-words for the English language can be found here:
http://www.textfixer.com/resources/common-english-words.txt
The easiest way is:
myString.Replace("and", "")
You'd loop over your word list and have a statement like the above. Google for a list of common English words?
List of English 2 Letter Words
List of English 3 Letter Words
You can match the words and remove them using regular expressions.
I have a Sql statament using special character (ex: ('), (/), (&)) and I don't know how to write them in my VB.NET code. Please help me. Thanks.
Find out the Unicode code point for the character (from http://www.unicode.org) and then use ChrW to convert from the code point to the character. (To put this in another string, use concatenation. I'm somewhat surprised that VB doesn't have an escape sequence, but there we go.)
For example, for the Euro sign (U+20AC) you'd write:
Dim euro as Char = ChrW(&H20AC)
The advantage of this over putting the character directly into source code is that your source code stays "just pure ASCII" - which means you won't have any strange issues with any other program trying to read it, diff it, etc. The disadvantage is that it's harder to see the symbol in the code, of course.
The most common way seems to be to append a character of the form Chr(34)... 34 represents a double quote character. The character codes can be found from the windows program "charmap"... just windows/Run... and type charmap
If you are passing strings to be processed as SQL statement try doubling the characters for example.
"SELECT * FROM MyRecords WHERE MyRecords.MyKeyField = ""With a "" Quote"" "
The '' double works with the other special characters as well.
The ' character can be doubled up to allow it into a string e.g
lSQLSTatement = "Select * from temp where name = 'fred''s'"
Will search for all records where name = fred's
Three points:
1) The example characters you've given are not special characters. They're directly available on your keyboard. Just press the corresponding key.
2) To type characters that don't have a corresponding key on the keyboard, use this:
Alt + (the ASCII code number of the special character)
For example, to type ¿, press Alt and key in 168, which is the ASCII code for that special character.
You can use this method to type a special character in practically any program not just a VB.Net text editor.
3) What you probably looking for is what is called 'escaping' characters in a string. In your SQL query string, just place a \ before each of those characters. That should do.
Chr() is probably the most popular.
ChrW() can be used if you want to generate unicode characters
The ControlChars class contains some special and 'invisible' characters, plus the quote - for example, ControlChars.Quote