replace
Searches for a string within a string and deletes or replaces with an optional string.
Available in:
| Apps (win) |
Apps (char) |
Reportwriter |
RPC |
Standalone PL |
| X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Syntax
string replace(str1,str2[,str3])
string str1,str2,str3
Description
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str1 | specifies the string in which to search.
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str2 | specifies the search string.
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str3 | specifies the string with which to replace
str2 if found in str1. If str3 is not specified, then all occurrences of
str2 will be deleted from str1.
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Notes
Example
Find and replace all occurrences of "San Jose" with "Los Gatos".
{
char s[80], f[80], r[80];
s = "San Jose is a lovely town. Do you know the way to San Jose?";
f = "San Jose";
r = "Los Gatos";
printf(s);
printf("Replace '"^^f^^"' with '"^^r^^"'");
s = replace(s,f,r);
printf(s);
f = "the way to ";
printf("Remove '"^^f^^"' from '"^^s^^"'");
s = replace(s,f);
printf(s);
}
returns
San Jose is a lovely town. Do you know the way to San Jose?
Replace 'San Jose' with 'Los Gatos'
Los Gatos is a lovely town. Do you know the way to Los Gatos?
Remove 'the way to ' from 'Los Gatos is a lovely town. Do you know the way to Los Gatos?'
Los Gatos is a lovely town. Do you know Los Gatos?