Replace Procedure

Replaces all occurrences of a search phase in a string with a replacement phrase.

Declaration

function Replace(

haystack as String, needle as String, replacement as String

) as String

haystack as String — The input string to make replacements in.
needle as String — The string to find in haystack. Must not be the empty string.
replacement as String — The string to replace needle with.

String — The haystack string with all occurrences of needle replaced with replacement.

Code

print "1:"; Replace("aaa", "a", "bb")

print "2:"; Replace("aaa", "aa", "bb")

print "3:"; Replace("", "a", "b")

print "4:"; Replace("aaa", "a", "aa")

print "5:"; Replace("aaaa", "aa", "a")

Output

1:bbbbbb

2:bba

4:aaaaaa

5:aa