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Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion"

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On 22/05/2022 16:42, R.Wieser wrote:
> TNP,
> 
>> Google cgi-bin and AJAX
> 
> Good idea !   Now a simple, locally run JS command is translated to
> something *way* heavier and complex, needing to communicate with a server
> and going over two different frameworks to do the work .  Oh wait, three
> including the actual search-and-replace program.
> 
I never said it would be lightweight or ideal. Merely that it was possible.
Neither are regexps.

> I can see it now : the server sends a full webpage to the browser, than the
> browser extracts all textparts from it one by one, sends each of them back
> to the server and asks it to do a search-and-replace, after which the server
> sends that part back and have Ajax replace the involved textpart in the
> browser.  Rinse and repeat for a list of to be replaced words.    One
> webpage, going around at least trice.
> 
> Nahhh, I don't think so.   It would be *much* simpler to just send the whole
> list of words and than have the server do everything at once and send the
> full updated webpage back.  Using PHP for the search-and-replace ofcourse.
> 
> ... if the JS I posted would be coming from the/a server to begin with.
> Which it doesn't.   IOW, the above doesn't even apply.
> 
> Besides, JS itself is good a enough language to create a non-regexp solution
> in.
> 

As I said.

> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
> 
> 


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trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-05-21 11:20 +0200
  Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-05-21 11:17 +0100
    Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-05-22 13:42 +0200
      Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-05-22 13:03 +0100
        Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-05-22 17:42 +0200
          Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-05-23 13:57 +0100
  Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" JJ <jj4public@gmx.com> - 2022-05-21 19:13 +0700
    Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-05-21 16:33 +0200
    Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-05-21 19:45 +0200
    Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2022-06-09 00:14 +0200
      Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-06-09 09:16 +0200
      Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2022-06-09 12:21 +0200
  Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2022-06-14 10:56 -0700
    Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-06-15 09:47 +0200
      Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2022-06-15 12:42 -0700
        Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-06-15 22:15 +0200
          Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2022-06-15 13:32 -0700
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              Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2022-06-16 10:33 -0700
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                Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion" Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2022-06-17 09:56 -0700
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