[!] finds the exclamation character. -.* selects the rest of the line. - ( +.*)(Item) + finds the + character. .* selects the text after the + up until the word 'Item' Item finds the string 'Item' () allow us to access whatever is inside the parentheses. The first set of parentheses may be accessed with 1 and the second set with 2. - 1 r n 2 will take + and whatever text comes after it, will then add a new line, and place the string 'Item' on the new line. - A-Z finds all letters of the alphabet in upper case. - a-z finds all lower case letters.

A great website has an attractive design and web pages that work on a variety of devices. Find resources on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to help you develop beautiful. Sep 28, 2016. This includes XML, HTTP, filesystem paths and configuration files—they all use almost exclusively ASCII characters, and in fact UTF-8 is very popular in. Also, you can search for a non-ASCII, UTF-8 encoded substring in a UTF-8 string as if it was a plain byte array—there is no need to mind code point.

- A-Za-z will find all alphabetic characters. - [^.] is the inverse. So, if we put these three together: [^A-Za-z] finds any character except an alphabetic character.

- Notice that only one of the [^A-Za-z] is in parentheses (). This is recalled by 1 in the Replace with field. The characters outside of the parentheses are discarded. Thanks for this, got it bookmarked in np++ for quick reminders now.

If anyone is interested I'd recommend regex101.com to work on more involved patterns before moving them into np++—its a nice sandbox w/ test text and substitution, as well as a big (but less np++ specific and not entirely beginner friendly) reference library. It also lets you save your patterns if you log in w/ your github(/google/twitter) account or even view other's publicly posted regex examples. The last part I mentioned is great if you're asking how to do basic stuff in comment threads with no answers tbh Although np++ uses PCRE which is the default flavor on the site I have had a few little issues transferring between them, keeping a list like this in np++ for fixing little differences is advised lol.

The alphabet in Newskool (Note: artificially shrunk vertically) ASCII art is a technique that uses for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) defined by the Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard ). The term is also loosely used to refer to. ASCII art can be created with any, and is often used with.

Most examples of ASCII require a (non-proportional, as on a traditional ) such as for presentation. Among the oldest known examples of ASCII art are the creations by computer-art pioneer from around 1966, who was working for at the time. 'Studies in Perception I' by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon from 1966 shows some examples of their early ASCII art.

ASCII art was invented, in large part, because early printers often lacked graphics ability and thus characters were used in place of graphic marks. Also, to mark divisions between different print jobs from different users, bulk printers often used ASCII art to print large banners, making the division easier to spot so that the results could be more easily separated by a computer operator or clerk. ASCII art was also used in early e-mail when images could not be embedded. A portion of the, January 6, 1875, showing advertisements made from 'ASCII' art. (The term 'ASCII' was not coined until the 20th century.) Since 1867 typewriters have been used for creating visual art. [ ] TTY and RTTY [ ] TTY stands for 'TeleTYpe' or 'TeleTYpewriter' and is also known as. RTTY stands for; such as, which predated ASCII, were used.

According to a chapter in the 'RTTY Handbook', text images have been sent via teletypewriter as early as 1923. However, none of the 'old' RTTY art has been discovered yet.

What is known is that text images appeared frequently on radioteletype in the 1960s and the 1970s. Line-printer art [ ] In the 1960s, published a representation of an electronic circuit produced on an line printer. At the same time, was producing realistic images, also on line printers, by overprinting several characters on top of one another. Note that it was not ASCII art in a sense that the 1403 was driven by an EBCDIC-coded platform and the character sets and trains available on the 1403 were derived from EBCDIC rather than ASCII, despite some glyphs commonalities. ASCII art [ ]. There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126.

The widespread usage of ASCII art can be traced to the computer of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The limitations of computers of that time period necessitated the use of text characters to represent images. Along with ASCII's use in communication, however, it also began to appear in the underground online art groups of the period. An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath. [ ] During the 1990s, graphical browsing and became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art. Despite this, ASCII art continued to survive through online, an acronym for 'Multi-User Dungeon', (which are textual ),,, and other forms of online communication which commonly employ the needed.

[ ] ANSI [ ] ASCII and more importantly, were staples of the early technological era; terminal systems relied on coherent presentation using color and control signals standard in the terminal protocols. Over the years, groups began to enter the ASCII art scene. Warez groups usually release files with their software, or other general software reverse-engineering releases.

The ASCII art will usually include the warez group's name and maybe some ASCII borders on the outsides of the release notes, etc. Systems were based on ASCII and ANSI art, as were most and similar applications, and the precursor to. The 'Roflcopter' as an example for animated ASCII art ASCII art is used wherever text can be more readily printed or transmitted than graphics, or in some cases, where the transmission of pictures is not possible. This includes typewriters,, non-graphic,, in early (e.g., ),, and news messages. ASCII art is also used within the of computer programs for representation of company or product logos, and flow control or other diagrams. In some cases, the entire source code of a program is a piece of ASCII art – for instance, an entry to one of the earlier is a program that adds numbers, but visually looks like a binary adder drawn in logic ports.

Some archives represent the circuits using ASCII art. Examples of ASCII-style art predating the modern computer era can be found in the June 1939, July 1948 and October 1948 editions of Popular Mechanics.

'0verkill' is a 2D platform multiplayer shooter game designed entirely in color ASCII art. And can display videos as ASCII art through the library. ASCII art is used in the making of DOS-based games. Many game walkthrough guides come as part of a basic.txt file; this file often contains the name of the game in ASCII art.

Such as below, word art is created using backslashes and other ASCII values in order to create the illusion of 3D. Types and styles [ ] Different techniques could be used in ASCII art to obtain different artistic effects. Electronic circuits and diagrams were implemented by or and provided the pretense [ ] for ASCII. 'Typewriter-style' lettering, made from individual letter characters: H H EEEEE L L OOO W W OOO RRRR L DDDD!! H H E L L O O W W W O O R R L D D!!

HHHHH EEEEE L L O O W W W O O RRRR L D D!! H H E L L O O,, W W O O R R L D D H H EEEEE LLLLL LLLLL OOO,, W W OOO R R LLLLL DDDD!!

Line art, for creating shapes:.-. / ____ '--' /__ (^._.^)~ Solid art, for creating filled objects:.g@8g. Db 'Y8@P' d88b Shading, using symbols with various intensities for creating gradients or contrasts::$#$: '4b. Combinations of the above, often used as signatures, for example, at the end of an email: _/ **************************** ( _/) / @ @ * 'Purrrfectly pleasant' * (='.'

Main article: The simplest forms of ASCII art are combinations of two or three characters for expressing emotion in text. They are commonly referred to as ', 'smilie', or '. There is another type of one-line ASCII art that does not require the mental rotation of pictures, which is widely known in Japan as (literally 'face characters'.) Traditionally, they are referred to as 'ASCII face'. More complex examples use several lines of text to draw large symbols or more complex figures. Popular smileys [ ].

Block ASCII display via Notepad versus ACiDView for Windows So-called 'block ASCII' or 'high ASCII' uses the extended characters of the 8-bit, which is a proprietary standard introduced by in 1979 (ANSI Standard x3.16) for the IBM PC DOS and MS-DOS operating systems. 'Block ASCIIs' were widely used on the PC during the 1990s until the Internet replaced BBSes as the main communication platform. Until then, 'block ASCIIs' dominated the.

The first art scene group that focused on the extended character set of the PC in their art work was called 'Aces of ANSI Art,' or 'AAA.' Some members left in 1990, and formed a group called, 'ANSI Creators in Demand.' In that same year the second major underground art scene group was founded,, 'Insane Creators Enterprise'. There is some debate between ASCII and block ASCII artist, with 'Hardcore' ASCII artists maintaining that block ASCII art is in fact not, because it does not use the 128 characters of the original ASCII standard. On the other hand, block ASCII artists argue that if their art uses only characters of the computers character set, then it is to be called ASCII, regardless if the character set is proprietary or not. Microsoft Windows does not support the x3.16. One can view block ASCIIs with a text editor using the font ', but it will not look exactly as it was intended by the artist.

With a special ASCII/ANSI viewer, such as ACiDView for Windows (see ASCII and ANSI art viewers), one can see block ASCII and ANSI files properly. An example that in appearance is part of this article. Alternatively, one could look at the file using the Type command in the command prompt. 'Amiga'/'Oldskool' style ASCII art [ ]. Mitsumete Knight Isometric Exercises. Oldschool/Amiga ASCII look on Commodore Amiga Computer versus look on the IBM PC (notice the tight spacing) In the art scene one popular ASCII style that used the 7-bit standard ASCII character set was the so-called 'Oldskool' Style.

It is also called 'Amiga style', due to its origin and widespread use on the Computers. The style uses primarily the characters: _/ -+=.(). The 'oldskool' art looks more like the outlined drawings of shapes than real pictures. This is an example of ' style' (also referred to as 'old school' or 'oldskool' style) ASCII art. The Amiga ASCII Scene surfaced in 1992, seven years after the introduction of the Commodore.

The Commodore 64 PETSCII scene did not make the transition to the Commodore Amiga as the C64 demo and warez scenes did. Among the first Amiga ASCII art groups were ART, Epsilon Design, Upper Class, Unreal (later known as 'DeZign'). This means that the text art scene on the Amiga was actually younger than the text art scene on the PC.

The Amiga artists also did not call their ASCII art style 'Oldskool'. That term was introduced on the PC. When and by whom is unknown and lost in history. The Amiga style ASCII artwork was most often released in the form of a single text file, which included all the artwork (usually requested), with some design parts in between, as opposed to the PC art scene where the art work was released as a with separate text files for each piece. Furthermore, the releases were usually called 'ASCII collections' and not 'art packs' like on the IBM PC. In text editors [ ] _____ ___ ____ _ _ ___ _ _/ ___ ___ _ _ _ / _ __ _ _ __/ _ _ ___ ____ _ ___ __ This kind of ASCII art is handmade in a text editor. Popular editors used to make this kind of ASCII art include a.k.a.

CED () and 2 (). Example from the PC, which was taken from the ASCII Editor. Newskool style ASCII art [ ]. Newskool ASCII Screenshot 'Newskool' is a popular form of ASCII art which capitalizes on character strings like '$#Xxo'. In spite of its name, the style is not 'new'; on the contrary, it was very old but fell out of favor and was replaced by 'Oldskool' and 'Block' style ASCII art.

It was dubbed 'Newskool' upon its comeback and renewed popularity at the end of the 1990s. Newskool changed significantly as the result of the introduction of. The classic 7-bit standard ASCII characters remain predominant, but the extended characters are often used for 'fine tuning' and 'tweaking'. The style developed further after the introduction and adaptation of. Methods for generating ASCII art [ ]. Main article: While some prefer to use a simple to produce ASCII art, specialized programs, such as have been developed that often simulate the features and tools in bitmap image editors. For Block ASCII art and ANSI art the artist almost always uses a special text editor, because to generate the required characters on a standard keyboard, one needs to know the for each character.

For example alt+178 will produce ▓, alt+177 will produce ▒ and, alt+8 will produce ◘. The special text editors have sets of special characters assigned to existing keys on the keyboard. Popular MS DOS based editors, such as and ACiDDraw had multiple sets of different special characters mapped to the F-Keys to make the use of those characters easier for the artist who can switch between individual sets of characters via basic keyboard shortcuts. PabloDraw is one of the very few special ASCII/ANSI art editors that were developed for MS Windows XP. Image to text conversion [ ] Other programs allow one to automatically convert an image to text characters, which is a special case of. A method is to sample the image down to with less than precision, and then assign a character for each value.

Such ASCII art generators often allow users to choose the intensity and contrast of the generated image. 3 factors limit the fidelity of the conversion, especially of photographs: • depth (solutions: reduced line spacing; bold style; block elements; colored background; good ); • sharpness (solutions: a longer text, with a smaller font; a greater set of characters; fonts); • ratio (solutions with compatibility issues: font with a square grid; stylized without extra ). Examples of converted images are given below. This is one of the earliest forms of ASCII art, dating back to the early days of the 1960s and. During the 1970s it was popular in US to get a with a photograph printed in ASCII art on it from an automated kiosk manned by a computer, and London's had a similar service to produce printed portraits.

With the advent of the web and and, many ASCII conversion programs will now quantize to a full colorspace, enabling colorized ASCII images. Still images or movies can also be converted to ASCII on various UNIX and UNIX-Like systems using the or graphics device driver, or the or under, Linux or; all of which render the screen using ASCII symbols instead of pixels.

There are also a number of applications, such as ASCII cam for, that generate ASCII art in real-time using input from the phone's camera. These applications typically allow the ASCII art to be saved as either a text file or as an image made up of ASCII text. Non fixed-width ASCII [ ] Most ASCII art is created using a, where all characters are identical in width ( is a popular monospaced font).

Early computers in use when ASCII art came into vogue had monospaced fonts for screen and printer displays. Today most of the more commonly used fonts in word processors, web browsers and other programs are proportional fonts, such as or, where different widths are used for different characters. ASCII art drawn for a fixed width font will usually appear distorted, or even unrecognizable when displayed in a proportional font. Some ASCII artists have produced art for display in proportional fonts. These ASCIIs, rather than using a purely shade-based correspondence, use characters for slopes and borders and use block shading.

These ASCIIs generally offer greater precision and attention to detail than fixed-width ASCIIs for a lower character count, although they are not as universally accessible since they are usually relatively font-specific. Animated ASCII art [ ] Animated ASCII art started in 1970 from so-called VT100 animations produced on terminals. These animations were simply text with cursor movement instructions, deleting and erasing the characters necessary to appear animated. Usually, they represented a long hand-crafted process undertaken by a single person to tell a story. Contemporary revitalized animated ASCII art again.

It became possible to display animated ASCII art via. Static ASCII art pictures are loaded and displayed one after another, creating the animation, very similar to how movie projectors unreel film reel and project the individual pictures on the big screen at movie theaters. A new term was born: ASCIImation – another name of Animated ASCII Art. A seminal work in this arena is the Star Wars ASCIImation. More complicated routines in JavaScript generate more elaborate ASCIImations showing effects like effects, star field emulations, fading effects and calculated images, such as animations. There are now many tools and programs that can transform raster images into text symbols; some of these tools can operate on streaming video. For example, the music video for American singer 's song ' is made up entirely of ASCII characters that approximate the original footage., a media player software, can render any video in colored ASCII through the module.

Other text-based visual art [ ] There are a variety of other types of art using text symbols from character sets other than ASCII and/or some form of color coding. Despite not being pure ASCII, these are still often referred to as 'ASCII art'. The character set portion designed specifically for drawing is known as the line drawing characters. ANSI art [ ].

Main article: The IBM PC graphics hardware in text mode uses 16 bits per character. It supports a variety of configurations, but in its default mode under DOS they are used to give 256 glyphs from one of the IBM PC code pages ( by default), 16 foreground colors, eight background colors, and a flash option. Such art can be loaded into screen memory directly. ANSI.SYS, if loaded, also allows such art to be placed on screen by outputting escape sequences that indicate movements of the screen cursor and color/flash changes. If this method is used then the art becomes known as. The IBM PC code pages also include characters intended for simple drawing which often made this art appear much cleaner than that made with more traditional character sets. Plain text files are also seen with these characters, though they have become far less common since Windows GUI text editors (using the ) have largely replaced DOS based ones.

Shift_JIS and Japan [ ]. Main article: would seem to offer the ultimate flexibility in producing text based art with its huge variety of characters. However, finding a suitable fixed-width font is likely to be difficult if a significant subset of Unicode is desired.

(Modern UNIX-style operating systems do provide complete fixed-width Unicode fonts, e.g. Windows has the font which includes characters like ┌╥─╨┐♥☺Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ) Also, the common practice of rendering Unicode with a mixture of variable width fonts is likely to make predictable display hard if more than a tiny subset of Unicode is used. ≽ ʌⱷ҅ ᴥⱷ ʌ≼ is an adequate representation of a cat's face in a font with varying character widths. Control and combining characters [ ]. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and. (June 2014) () are used to create ASCII art from scratch, or to edit existing ASCII art files.

ASCII art may be created from an existing digital image using an ASCII art converter, an online tool or a that automatically converts an image into ASCII art, using. Typically, this is done by sampling the image down to with less than precision, so that each value corresponds to different. See also [ ] • • • Types and styles:,,, (release info file) • • Related art:,,, • Related (context):, (BBS),, • Pre-ASCII history:,,,, • • Software:, • Unicode, References [ ].