replacex
Index

Replacex

Format

replacex ( haystack , regex , tostring )

Description

Return a new string where all occurrences of substrings matching the regular expression regex are replaced by tostring in the string haystack.

Example

a$ = "We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine."
print Replacex(a$,"ye.*ow","blue")
print Replacex(a$, "[wW]e", "Beatles")
will display
We all live in a blue submarine.
Beatles all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

New to Version

0.9.6.56