strsub

Contents: Description, Arguments, Usage, Examples, Related Functions Supported Under Version: >1.69 Current Davinci Version: 2.27 64-bit Safe: No Description Substring substitution using regular expressions Arguments and Return Values Arguments: Three strings or a text buffer and two strings Return Value: A string or text buffer Usage Syntax: strsub(object = STRING/TEXT, match = STRING, subst = STRING) strsub() traverses a string looking for match and replaces it with subst. For a TEXT object, this operation is done on every row using the same match and subst. Note: 'match' and 'subst' can contain SED like regular expressions Examples dv> poem Text Buffer with 3 lines of text 1: The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all it's might 2: He did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright 3: And this was odd because it was the middle of the night dv> strsub(poem,"was","is") Text Buffer with 3 lines of text 1: The sun is shining on the sea, shining with all it's might 2: He did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright 3: And this is odd because it is the middle of the night Another example using regular expressions dv> a = "this is my university and i have $100 dollars" dv> strsub(a, " [^ ]{2}", " ") "this iversity d i ve 00 llars"

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