Replace First Occurrence of a Substring in a String

[Thierry Douez]

Peter,


>         put "Cat and Dog" into tString
>         repeat with tPos = 1 to the length of tString
>                 if char tPos of tString = "a" then
>                         put "*" into char tPos of tString
>                         exit repeat
>                 end if
>         end repeat
>

How about this one?


   get offset( "a", tString)
   if IT > 0 then put "*" into char IT of tString


Thierry


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