How To Match Complex Element IDs In jQuery

Author: , July 22nd, 2021

PROBLEM: An element ID that looked like this would fail to match: service = east node = db1-demo.thedomain.com

SOLUTION: Rig any special characters in the complex hostname (:.[],-@) with a backslash in front of them to ensure proper matching:

How To Escape Single and Double Quotes in Perl

Author: , February 11th, 2021

## to add a single backslash in front of whatever char was matched

## to double whatever char was matched

## to convert ‘ to ‘\” for shell execution

How To Find Non-ASCII Characters in Vi

Author: , July 7th, 2015

To search for non-ASCII characters: /[^\d0-\d127] Use the substitute function to clean them up: :%s/[^\d0-\d127]/ /g

How To Batch Search and Replace Multiple Files Using PERL

Author: , October 16th, 2014

Using PERL, we can easily do a search and replace across multiple files. perl -pi -w -e ‘s/SEARCH_FOR/REPLACE_WITH/g;’ FILE_LIST The following example will replace all occurrences of “hello” with “goodbye” inside files ending with .txt:

To handle special characters, use the hex value. For example, to convert MS web files that use control characters: […]

How To Replace All Line Breaks With <br /> Using JavaScript

Author: , April 16th, 2012

How To Easily Update Your WordPress URL After A Server Move

Author: , February 6th, 2012

To convert FROM dev TO www:

To convert FROM www TO dev: