Oooh. Secret asterisks. it's like the prize at the bottom of the CrackerJacks!
I believe that's my hey. Hey!
Xander ,'Storyteller'
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Betsy HP - Sep 19, 2002 8:09:49 pm PDT #258 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
DXMachina - Sep 19, 2002 10:19:02 pm PDT #259 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm just wondering, if you have the time to say, why are there white-fonted asterisks instead of a collection of s?
You'll have to wait for Jon to return to get an answer. I'm pretty sure they're there to help get one browser or another (probably Netscape) to display the page properly when there are no full lines of text on the page.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:25:47 pm PDT #260 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes -- it's for table width. It used to be a sentence. Spaces wouldn't have the same effect.
John H - Sep 19, 2002 10:26:36 pm PDT #261 of 10000
Message Centre (sorry, I physically can't spell it the American way)
Just want it noted that I've been spelling it the UnAmerican way, but not necessarily calling attention to it...
why are there white-fonted asterisks instead of a collection of s?
Jon explained this to me but it made my head hurt. That bit is only there to guard about strange wrapping, in Netscape, for threads with no posts in them, or something.
And in response to Gar's
the "one" on the second line of the verse poofs, but he "on" third does not
did my fix not sort that out, ita, or didn't it get put in yet?
The code, Gar, is
HTML-opening-bracket, some stuff, a space, a word beginning with on, some more stuff until an HTML-closing-bracket
What happens is that this:
<pre>something one something</pre>
gets read as if the "one" is between the red brackets, which technically it is, but that wasn't the intention of the code. We need to make the "some more stuff until an HTML-closing-bracket" portion of the regex change to "ome more stuff until the next HTML-closing-bracket", which should fix it.
I think we can fix it up
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:29:00 pm PDT #262 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John, is the last regexp this:
/(<.*?)\\son[a-zA-Z]+([^>]+>)/
because that's what's in there.
John H - Sep 19, 2002 10:42:30 pm PDT #263 of 10000
/(<.*?)\\son[a-zA-Z]+([^>]+>)/
I think we need to change that to:
/(<[^>]+?)\\son[a-zA-Z]+([^>]+>)/
that should do it.
(anyone paying attention who realises that completely contracticts my verbal solution above, please just keep it to yourself.)
Edited for the slash before the s.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:49:09 pm PDT #264 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Done.
1) This old man. 2) He played one. 3) He played knicknack on my thumb..
Typo Boy - Sep 19, 2002 10:50:49 pm PDT #265 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Cool. That was mega-quick.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:52:23 pm PDT #266 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John's good like that.
John H - Sep 19, 2002 10:57:01 pm PDT #267 of 10000
John's good like that.
You're very kind, but it's the classic beginner's mistake with regexes. "Dot-star is almost never what you want" -- Jeffrey E Friedel, Mastering Regular Expressions, O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.