Manipulate string with regexp?

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Eivind Marienborg	Monday 11 December 2006 6:06:45 am Hi! <b>Short version:</b> Is there any way to use regexp to manipulate text strings (e.g. <i>$nick =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+//g</i>) in eZ? If so, how? <b>Long version:</b> I'm setting up a chat section on our community site, using CGI::IRC and a local installation of ircd-ratbox. I want my users to have the same nickname both in eZ and on irc, and to do that, I generate the login-form from CGI::IRC myself, putting the eZ username (not the user account-username, but a normal text line-field (in order to allow more dynamic usernames)) in a hidden form-field. (The users are not allowed to alter nicknames on IRC, by restrictions in CGI::IRC and ratbox) The problem is that since our username-field allows special characters (~ > < _ %" etc), the login to irc fails. So, I need to strip of the special characters (<i>$nick =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+//g</i>) . There is a theoretical possibility of doing this in IRC::CGI after the form is submitted, but if eZ can handle it, that would be easier. Any ideas on how this could be done?
Kristof Coomans	Monday 11 December 2006 7:44:20 am Hi Eivind Did you try the reg ex replace contribution: http://ez.no/community/contribs/template_plugins/reg_ex_replace ? independent eZ Publish developer and service provider \| http://blog.coomanskristof.be \| http://ezpedia.org
Eivind Marienborg	Monday 11 December 2006 10:11:42 am ah, works great! thanks for the tip, and sorry I missed that page when searching.

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Eivind Marienborg

Monday 11 December 2006 6:06:45 am

Hi!

Short version:
Is there any way to use regexp to manipulate text strings (e.g. $nick =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+//g) in eZ? If so, how?

Long version:
I'm setting up a chat section on our community site, using CGI::IRC and a local installation of ircd-ratbox. I want my users to have the same nickname both in eZ and on irc, and to do that, I generate the login-form from CGI::IRC myself, putting the eZ username (not the user account-username, but a normal text line-field (in order to allow more dynamic usernames)) in a hidden form-field. (The users are not allowed to alter nicknames on IRC, by restrictions in CGI::IRC and ratbox)

The problem is that since our username-field allows special characters (~ > < _ %" etc), the login to irc fails.

So, I need to strip of the special characters ($nick =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+//g) . There is a theoretical possibility of doing this in IRC::CGI after the form is submitted, but if eZ can handle it, that would be easier.

Any ideas on how this could be done?

Kristof Coomans

Monday 11 December 2006 7:44:20 am

Hi Eivind

Did you try the reg ex replace contribution: http://ez.no/community/contribs/template_plugins/reg_ex_replace ?

independent eZ Publish developer and service provider | http://blog.coomanskristof.be | http://ezpedia.org

Eivind Marienborg

Monday 11 December 2006 10:11:42 am

ah, works great! thanks for the tip, and sorry I missed that page when searching.