Replace command

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sat Apr 10 11:17:02 EDT 2010


Hi David C.,

put "Jones" into word wordOffset("Piper",tContainer) of tContainer

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Op 10 apr 2010, om 16:46 heeft David Coker het volgende geschreven:

> Howdy folks,
> Ran across another head scratcher that I need some help with.
>
> Let's say I have put the following tongue twister into a variable
> called tContainer:
>
> Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
> If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
> then where's the peck of pickled peppers that
> Peter Piper picked?
>
> the code:
> replace "Piper" with "Jones" in tContainer
>
> ... obviously replaces every instance of the matching word found in
> the container.
>
> Am I overlooking a simple way to limit the number of matching words to
> only one occurrence, other than processing the contents one line at a
> time outside of the container?
>
> If there is some other such command or function in RevTalk, I have
> completely overlooked it and badly need some guidance.
>
> Best regards,
> David C.





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