Replace (String function)
Replace occurrences of a substring with a substitute string (String class)
The Replace intrinsic function replaces one, or multiple, occurrences of a substring within the method object input string with a substitute string, returning the modified version of the input string.
Syntax
%outString = string:Replace( substring, replacement, [Count= number])
Syntax terms
| %outString | A string variable to receive the modified input string. |
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| string | The string to which the method is applied. |
| substring | The substring that the method attempts to replace in the input string. If string contains no occurrences of substring, %outstring is set to a copy of string. If substring is null or longer than 255 characters, the request is cancelled. |
| replacement | A string that contains the characters that replace the specified substring. If replacement is:
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| Count | An optional, but name required, argument that is the number of occurrences of substring to replace. Only values greater than 0 are valid. If count is:
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Usage notes
- The search for the target substring is context sensitive; case matters in the attempt to find, as well as in the replacement of, the target characters.
- Calling Replace with an empty replacement string argument is equivalent to using Remove.
- Replace is available as of Sirius Mods Version 7.3.
Examples
The following request shows two examples of Replace calls against the same input string: the first call replaces two occurrences of a specified substring; the second removes all occurrences of a different substring.
begin %x is longstring %substr is string len 6 %repl is string len 2 %out is longstring %x = 'How much wood would a woodchuck chuck' %substr = 'wo' %repl = '?' %out = %x:replace(%substr, %repl, Count=2) printText {~} is {%out} %substr = ' wood' %repl = '' %out = %x:replace(%substr, %repl) printText {~} is {%out} end
The request output follows:
%out is How much ?od ?uld a ?odchuck chuck %out is How much would achuck chuck
The following example shows how to remove blanks:
begin %x is longstring %x = 'a spaced out woodchuck' printText /{%x:replace(' ', )}/ end
The result is:
/aspacedoutwoodchuck/