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+<helpdocument version="1.0">
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+ <meta>
+ <topic id="sbasicsharedreplace" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+ <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Replace Function</title>
+ <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/replace.xhp</filename>
+ </topic>
+ </meta>
+ <body>
+ <section id="replace">
+ <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id721552551162491">
+ <bookmark_value>Replace function</bookmark_value>
+ </bookmark>
+ <h1 id="hd_id781552551013521"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/replace.xhp" name="Replace Function">Replace Function</link></h1>
+ <paragraph id="par_id291552551013522" role="paragraph">Replaces some string by another.</paragraph>
+ </section>
+
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functsyntax"/>
+ <bascode>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id51623159758550">Replace (Expression As String, Find As String, Replace As String [, Start = 1 [, Count = -1 [, Compare = True]]]) As String</paragraph>
+ </bascode>
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/01020300.xhp#kwargs"/>
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functvalue"/>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id911552552252024">String</paragraph>
+
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functparameters"/>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id721552552263062"><emph>Expression:</emph> Any string expression that you want to modify.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id901552552269836"><emph>Find:</emph> Any string expression that shall be searched for.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id791552552275383"><emph>Replace:</emph> Any string expression that shall replace the found search string.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id111552552283060"><emph>Start:</emph> Optional numeric expression that indicates the character position where the search starts and also the start of the substring to be returned.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id921552552289833"><emph>Count:</emph> Optional maximum number of times the replace shall be performed. When set to -1, all possible replacements are performed.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id891552552302894"><emph>Compare:</emph> Optional boolean expression that defines the type of comparison. The value of this parameter can be <literal>True</literal> or <literal>False</literal>. The default value of <literal>True</literal> specifies a text comparison that is not case-sensitive. The value of <literal>False</literal> specifies a binary comparison that is case-sensitive. You can as well use 0 instead of <literal>False</literal> or 1 instead of <literal>True</literal>.</paragraph>
+
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/>
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/>
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functexample"/>
+
+ <bascode>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id991552552420717">MsgBox Replace ("aBbcnnbnn", "b", "$", 1, 1, False) 'returns "aB$cnnbnn"</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id321552552440672" xml-lang="en-US">REM meaning: "b" should be replaced, but</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id571552552467647" xml-lang="en-US">REM * only when lowercase (compare=False), hence second occurrence of "b"</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id71552552474769" xml-lang="en-US">REM * only first (respecting case) occurrence (count=1)</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id501587778372566" localize="false">MsgBox Replace ("ABCDEFGHI", "E", "*", 4)</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id861587778446685" xml-lang="en-US">REM returns D*FGHI because the search starts at position 4, which is also the start of the returned string.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id491622734884707" xml-lang="en-US">MsgBox Replace("aBbcnnbnn", "b", "$£", compare:=False) 'returns "aB$£cnn$£nn"</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id341622734993202" xml-lang="en-US">REM Replace all (count = -1) "b" with "$£" respecting casing (compare=False) starting from first letter (start=1) </paragraph>
+ </bascode>
+ <section id="relatedtopics">
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id161599082457466" localize="false"><embedvar href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#stringfunctions"/></paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id361623159933508" localize="false"><embedvar href="text/sbasic/shared/03/sf_string.xhp#StringService"/></paragraph>
+ </section>
+</body>
+</helpdocument>