Replace First Occurrence of a Substring in a String

[Peter W A Wood]

Many thanks Thierry.

On 21 Sep 2014, at 16:40, Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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