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Re: Replace any characters with 3 characters.

#1 Replace any characters with 3 characters.

Posted by: maki | Date: 2018-04-28 18:41 | IP: IP Logged

Replace any characters with 3 characters.

I am asking for a regular expression to Replace any number of characters to 3.

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Always Replace with:
===(3 character)

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#2 Re: Replace any characters with 3 characters.

Posted by: pspad | Date: 2018-04-28 18:50 | IP: IP Logged

Search: =+
Reaplace: ===
[x]Regular expressions

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#3 Re: Replace any characters with 3 characters.

Posted by: maki | Date: 2018-04-29 12:30 | IP: IP Logged

100% works, many thanks.

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#4 Re: Replace any characters with 3 characters.

Posted by: therium | Date: 2018-09-09 13:34 | IP: IP Logged

In Perl syntax where $s is a variable holding a string:

$s=~s/={4,}/===/; # Replace 4 or more equals with just 3 equals.

I do this a lot to replace 2 or more spaces with one space:

$s=~s/ {2,}/ /g; # Replace 2 or more spaces with just one space.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018-09-09 13:34 by therium.

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