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How do i replace [] brackets using SED

I have a string that i am want to remove punctuation from. I started with sed 's/[[:punct:]]/ /g' But …

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Remove empty lines from txtfiles, remove spaces from start and end of line

Which one would be better: sed -e '/^$/d' *.txt sed 'g/^$/d' -i *.txt Also, how do I remove …

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Replace spaces with dash and remove prefix from string

I'm using this to remove spaces and special characters and convert characters to lowercase: ''.join(e for e in …

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Replace \\ with \ in C#

I have a long string (a path) with double backslashes, and I want to replace it with single backslashes: string …

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Python recursively replace character in keys of nested dictionary?

I'm trying to create a generic function that replaces dots in keys of a nested dictionary. I have a non-generic …

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Why does re.sub replace the entire pattern, not just a capturing group within it?

re.sub('a(b)','d','abc') yields dc, not adc. Why does re.sub replace the entire capturing group, …

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Replace sequence of bytes in binary file

What is the best method to replace sequence of bytes in binary file to the same length of other bytes? …

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Escape space with backslash in java

I want to replace spaces from path string. I tried below but doesn't seems to be working : String path = "/Users/…

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Simplify replacement of date object with "today" and "yesterday" strings in Java static method

I have following method that I would like to make shorter or faster if nothing else. Please all comments are …

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Replacing double backslashes with single backslash

I have a string "\\u003c", which belongs to UTF-8 charset. I am unable to decode it to unicode because …

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