Replacing Characters

[JB]

Thank you for the info.  I knew someone
who knew everything once but with the
rapid pace of change in technology it
became impossible for him to keep up
and everyday he ended up knowing a
little bit less.

John Balgenorth


On Sep 26, 2014, at 9:50 PM, <larry at significantplanet.org> <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:

> 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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