Replacing Characters

[larry at significantplanet.org]

My experience is that when doing string searching offset() is by far the 
fastest way.
But I don't know everything.
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JB" <sundown at pacifier.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 10:26 PM
Subject: Replacing Characters


>I want to replace every third character in
> a text string if it is a certain character.  So
> lets say I have a list of characters there
> range from A thru F and the list is possibly
> 10,000 characters long.
>
> I want to check every third character in the
> list and if it is a D then I want to change it
> to a +.
>
> I can probably do it with a repeat and use a
> variable for a counter that resets every three
> times and then check the character when the
> counter gets to three but I was wondering if it
> could be done faster somehow.
>
> John Balgenorth
>
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