[josm-dev] MapCSS: Substitute characters in a text

[Martin Vonwald]

Hi!

I already tried that before asking on this list. But maybe I didn't use it
correct, so I hoped that someone here could give me a hint.

Martin


2013/4/6 Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>

> Recently support for regular expressions was added to the JOSM
> implementation of MapCSS.
>
>
> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Styles/MapCSSImplementation#Evalexpressions
>
> Maybe you can accomplish what you need with
>
> regexp_match(regexp, string, flags)
>
> It will return a list of matching groups, but I'm not sure how you can get
> back from a list to a string.
>
> It would be more convenient if the good soul who added the regex support
> would also add a regex replace function.
>
> Polyglot
>
>
> 2013/4/6 Martin Vonwald <imagic.osm at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Within a MapCSS style I have to replace some characters in an arbitrary
>> text by others. Example: "Roma -> Napoli" should be changed to "Roma
>> -&#x3E; Napoli".
>>
>> The text comes from a tag so I don't have any knowledge of its content in
>> advance, but I have to get rid of some characters. Any ideas how to do
>> that?
>>
>> best regards,
>> Martin
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