This script shows you how to use the Python standard re module to perform single-pass multiple string substitution using a dictionary.

"Templating" (copying an input file to output, on the fly inserting Python expressions and statements) is a frequent need, and YAPTU is a small but complete Python module for that; expressions and statements are identified by arbitrary user-chosen regular-rexpressions.

This script is useful when you want to convert tabs in a string to the appropriate number of spaces, or vice versa.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Compressing, Compressing Tabs, Expanding, Expanding Tabs, String Manipulation, Tabs

This script contains a function that takes in an arbitrary string and converts it into its raw string equivalent. It is very useful when a user needs to input text and you want the raw equivalent to be used and not the processed version.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Conversion, Raw String, String, String Conversion, String Manipulation, Text

Reversing a String by Words or Characters script allows you to reverse the characters or words of a string.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Characters, Characters Manipulation, Reversing, String, String Reversing, Words Management

This script is useful when you want to access portions of a string. For example, you've read a fixed-width record and want to extract the fields.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Accessing, Accessing Substrings, Extract Strings, Manipulation, String Manipulation, Substrings

This procedure reads through a file of unknown size once, returning a random line from the file.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Line, Random, Random Line, Retrieving Line, Text, Text Manipulation

Converting Word documents to text script allows you to convert word documents to text files.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Converter, Text, Text Converter, Text Tool, Word, Word Converter

This script introduces a novel way of compressing text and is meant primarily as an exercise.The procedures work best on standard 7-BIT ASCII and worst on binary encoded data. The function "encode" returns a string and a key that must be passed to function "decode" in order to recover the...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Binary, Binary Encoded Data, Compressor, Text, Text Compressor, Text Tool

This function formats a block of text. The text is broken into tokens. (Whitespace is NOT preserved.) The tokens are reassembled at the specified level of indentation and line width. A string is returned.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Block, Format, Format Text, Text, Text Block, Text Broke

This script is a small tool for language and author identification for textfiles.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Author Identification, Identification, Language, Language Identification, Text, Text Management

This program translates Armenian in UTF-8 Unicode to the International Phonetic Alphabet assuming that the dialect represented is Eastern Armenian. To compile this program, first inspect the Makefile and change the definitionsof any directories that you wish to change. Then do:makemake...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, C/C++, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Armenian, Armenian Font Converter, Armenian To Utf-8 Unicode, Converter, Font, Font Conversion

These programs convert between textual and binary representations of numbers. ascii2binary reads input consisting of textual representations of numbers separated by whitespace and produces as output the binary equivalents. The type and precision of the binary output is selected using command line...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, C/C++, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Ascii, Ascii To Binary Converter, Binary, Binary To Ascii Converter, Converter, Text To Binary Converter

International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix which supports a large number of European languages. An emacs interface is available as well as the standard command-line mode. Ispell is a fast screen-oriented spelling checker that shows you your errors in the context of the...


Platforms: Windows, *nix, Linux, C/C++, BSD

Keyword: Checking, Spell, Spell Checking, Text, Text Spelling, Text Utility

InlineEditBox.net is a .NET control that adds in-line text editing capabilities with one line of code. This is great for forms and administrative areas giving you the possibility to edit a piece of text inline, and submitting it not via a submit button, but instead with AJAX. InlineEditbox...


Platforms: Windows, ASP.NET,

Keyword: .net Control, Editing, In-line, In-line Text Editing, Text, Text Management Library

Using postEditor you can tabulate without losing your focus and maintain the tabsize in line brakes. You can also use snippets like in TextMate. Features: - Auto-Indent in linebrakes and snippets - Snippet Tabposition: ul tab tab - Snippet Autocompletion: ol tab tab tab...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, JavaScript, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Editor, Javascript, Tabulating Tool, Text, Text Editing Tool, Text Editor

jQuery Codepress Plugin makes it easy to install Codepresss on your page in the jQuery way. It integrates Codepresss with the jQuery Form Plugin and enables the contents of Codepress to be submitted via ajax. The code is compatible with all modern web browsers.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, JavaScript, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Codepress, Codepress Plugin, Jquery, Jquery Codepress, Jquery Plugin, Plugin

Jeditable is an edit in place plugin for jQuery. Normal flow is this: - User clicks text on web page. - Block of text becomes a form. - User edits contents and presses submit button. - New text is sent to webserver and saved. - Form becomes normal text again. Default action of when user...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, JavaScript, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Edit In Place Tool, Editing, Jquery Plugin, Text, Text Editing Tool, Tool

Flash Text Replacer script generates Flash headings dynamically: the text is written to the webpage, and then converted on page load by Flash and JS., making the text appear anti-aliased and image-like. So that's exactly what this script does. It's a pre-written Flash "template" with support for...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Flash, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Flash, Flash Headings, Flash Text Generator, Headings, Text, Text Replacer

Urdu (Pakistan) Text Writer allows users to type Urdu.It is easy to use to compose Urdu and allows users to copy and paste the Urdu text to other applications such as MS Word ,Excel , Adobe Photoshop ,CorelDraw ,Ulead Media/Video Studio and any other word processor or application that support to...


Platforms: Windows, C/C++,

Keyword: Editor, Type Urdu, Urdu, Urdu Editor, Write, Write Urdu