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**NotAllThere** · 1 April 2013, 19:52

Unfortunately the straight swaps didn't work, so while Cojak became me, I didn't turn into her. Likewise Malcolm Buggeridge and gricerboy.

**NickFitz** · 1 April 2013, 20:11

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

Unfortunately the straight swaps didn't work, so while Cojak became me, I didn't turn into her. Likewise Malcolm Buggeridge and gricerboy.

Makes sense. If you have the strings:

Code:

aaa
bbb
ccc

and you try to change aaa to ccc and ccc to aaa, you first change aaa:

Code:

ccc
bbb
ccc

and then change ccc:

Code:

aaa
bbb
aaa

so aaa just gets changed back again

**NotAllThere** · 1 April 2013, 20:51

I dunno. This IT technical stuff is just to much for my puny brain.

**Zippy** · 1 April 2013, 23:42

Originally posted by administrator View Post

Cheers but was NAT's idea

He sent me this a few days ago:
xkcd • View topic - THE RECKONING cometh

I knew I would be able to do it with user names but was not sure with the short common words due to how it panned out when I tried to censor some swear words. As well as the tulip that we still have I did lots of others too but when cockerel became noddyerel and scunthorpe became sdaffodilthorpe or something like that then I had to remove them all apart from the tulip one. Found an easy way of doing exact match replacement on small words as long as they weren't followed by punctuation so thought that would be enough. Had to expand my initial list of 50 words to over 120 for the posts to look messed up enough to be effective so was up late last night adding more!

I only replaced something like 90 user names from the top posters by volume and who I had seen online over the past few days. Some of them didn't come online which was shame so will post them all here in a sec once I have cleaned up all the templates.

So big thanks to NotAllThere for the idea! I was giggling like anything last night when putting them all up. Especially when fullyautomatix spotted what was going on, had to change his username to "justcallmeclaire" and "April Fools" to "I am pished", will undelete that thread in a sec too.