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STRTRAN()
Syntax: STRTRAN(<expC1>, <expC2> [,<expC3>] [,<expN1>]
[,<expN2>])
Purpose: To search and replace within a character string.
Arguments: <expC1> is the character string to search.
<expC2> is the sequence of characters to locate.
<expC3> is the sequence of characters to replace with.
If this argument is not specified, all instances of the
search argument are replaced with a null string ("").
<expN1> is the first occurrence that will be replaced.
If this argument is omitted, the default is one.
<expN2> is the number of occurrences to replace. If
this argument is not specified, the default is all.
Returns: A character string.
Usage: STRTRAN() performs a standard substring search within a
character string. When it finds a match, it replaces the
search string with the specified replacement string. All
instances of the search string are replaced unless <expN2>
is specified.
Note that STRTRAN() replaces substrings and therefore does
not account for whole words.
Library: CLIPPER.LIB
----------------------------------- Example --------------------------------
string = "To be, or not to be?"
? STRTRAN(string, "be", "compute")
Result: To compute, or not to compute?
See Also: AT() RAT() SUBSTR()
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