I'm adding steps to a TFS test case and I want to add the literal text: #example.com for one of the test steps. However, TFS 2015 parses #example as a parameter. How can I escape the at sign (#) so that I can include #example.com literally instead of as a parameter?
Seems we cannot escape the symbol "#" smoothly.
The symbol "#" is used for creating or adding a parameter in Test case steps. Please see Add parameters to a test case for details.
I have submitted a user voice here to suggest the feature, you can go and vote it up to achieve that in future release...
For now as a workaround you can try below ways to escape the parameters :
As #YanSklyarenko mentioned, if the character right before # is
not a white-space, it is not considered a parameter. (e.g.:
test#example.com)
Type white-space or any other special characters behind #, (e.g.:
# example.com, #'example.com)
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I'm integrating slack with jenkins to use slash commands and want to know if slash commands have variables
What I want to do is something like this;
/this_word_should_be_in_the_url word
and the be able to use word in the URL the slash command will call.
On their page they have something like /weather 94070
Do I have access to the 94070 and somehow set is as a query parameter for the URL.
Is this possible?
Can't find any documentation of this.
Thanks.
Yes. You will have access to the word as per the example that you mentioned.
So for example, if you have the following:
/this_word_should_be_in_the_url word
Then there will be an additional query parameter named text that will contain everything else after the slash command. If you just have one parameter then it should be simple to just trim and use the text query parameter but if you have multiple words and need to split them into something more meaningful, then you might have to use some regex or simple string split function.
It is documented at How do commands work. In this section they have provided the various query parameters that will get passed to your Slash Command External URL. For the weather example, the data posted as per the documentation is:
token=gIkuvaNzQIHg97ATvDxqgjtO
team_id=T0001
team_domain=example
channel_id=C2147483705
channel_name=test
user_id=U2147483697
user_name=Steve
command=/weather
text=94070
response_url=https://hooks.slack.com/commands/1234/5678
Notice the text parameter in the above list.
for example this image:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFmDUA5CcAAmcBl.jpg
then I add a color symbol to send query string:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFmDUA5CcAAmcBl.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFmDUA5CcAAmcBl.jpg:small
I googled that is twitter image
what coding language can achieve this?
php? ruby on rails?
or any htaccess rewrite rule?
Any.
It has nothing to do with programming languages, but with CGI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
The colon is however not a valid part of the CGI spec, so the server receiving the request will probably parse it in code.
Note though that the CGI spec defines '&' as separator between different variable/value pairs, which results in incorrect (X)HTML when used in <a> tags. This is because it doesn't define a valid entity. To remedy this, at least in PHP, you can change this separator: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.arg-separator.output
I am developing an android application and I am using a RESTful service to connect to SQL azure database. I need to use this RESTful url:
http://example.com/wcfDataService1.svc/wn_synset?$filter=word%20eq%20'child's_game'&$select=synset_id,w_num,word,ss_type,wn_gloss/gloss&$expand=wn_gloss
As you can see am looking for this word (child's_game) in the table wn_synset.
The problem is the single quote (') in child's_game. As you can see it puts the word inside quotes '...' so when it finds the quote in child's_game it thinks it is the end of the word and the rest is error.
How can i solve this problem?
You can url-encode the ' symbols with %27. See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp and try it in the "Try it yourself" section.
Edit: (moved correct guess from comments to the answer itself)
Or is it just, that the SQL-Server on the server side gets it wrong? Like it builds a select * from wn_synset where word = 'child's game' and there's the error? Then you'll have to look up how you escape single quotes for your database -- probably it's by using two single quotes (''), so perhaps try to send child''s game instead of child's game.
There is no problem, or in other words, your URL is not a URL. If it were a URL, ther wouldn't be a '. Of course, you can have this ' in your URL, so to speak. But it needs to be escaped in accordance with the rules for URLs. You may want to look at URLEncoder and Uri.
I'm currently modifying my regex for this:
Extracting email addresses in an html block in ruby/rails
basically, im making another obfuscator that uses ROT13 by parsing a block of text for all links that contain a mailto referrer(using hpricot). One use case this doesn't catch is that if the user just typed in an email address(without turning it into a link via tinymce)
So here's the basic flow of my method:
1. parse a block of text for all tags with href="mailto:..."
2. replace each tag with a javascript function that changes this into ROT13 (using this script: http://unixmonkey.net/?p=20)
3. once all links are obfuscated, pass the resulting block of text into another function that parses for all emails(this one has an email regex that reverses the email address and then adds a span to that email - to reverse it back)
step 3 is supposed to clean the block of text for remaining emails that AREN'T in a href tags(meaning it wasn't parsed by hpricot). Problem with this is that the emails that were converted to ROT13 are still found by my regex. What i want to catch are just emails that WEREN'T CONVERTED to ROT13.
How do i do this? well all emails the WERE CONVERTED have a trailing "'.replace" in them. meaning, i need to get all emails WITHOUT that string. so far i have this regex:
/\b([A-Z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Z0-9.-]+.[A-Z]{2,4}('.replace))\b/i
but this gets all the emails with the trailing '.replace i want to get the opposite and I'm currently stumped with this. any help from regex gurus out there?
MORE INFO:
Here's the regex + the block of text im parsing:
http://www.rubular.com/r/NqXIHrNqjI
as you can see, the first two 'email addresses' are already obfuscated using ROT13. I need a regex that gets the emails ohhellzyeah#ribute.com and kaboom#yahoo.com
On negative lookaheads
You can use a negative lookahead to assert that a pattern doesn't match.
For example, the following regex matches all strings that doesn't end with ".replace" string:
^(?!.*\.replace$).*$
As another example, this regex matches all a*b*, except aabb:
^(?!aabb$)a*b*$
Ideally,
See also
regular-expressions.info/Lookaheads and anchors
Flavor comparison - unfortunately, Ruby doesn't support lookbehinds
Specific solution
The following regex works in this scenario: (see on rubular.com):
/\b([A-Z0-9._%+-]+#(?![A-Z0-9.-]*'\.replace\b)[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4})\b/i
is there any danger if the rails html_escape function would stop escaping '&'? I tested a few cases and it doesn't seem to create any problems. Can you give me a contrary an example? Thanks.
If you put an unescaped "&" into an HTML attribute, it would make your page invalid. For example:
Link
The page is now invalid as the & indicates an entity. This is true for any usage of an & on a page (for example, view source and hopefully you'll notice that Stack Overflow escapes the & signs in this post!)
The following would make the above example valid:
Link
Additional Note
& characters do need to be escaped in URLs if you want to validate your markup against the W3C validator. Example:
Line 9, Column 38: & did not start a character reference.
(& probably should have been escaped as &.)
Example
change an url with adding some argument