Category talk:String

From Axaptapedia

Strings containing a dash or a colon, and presumably other punctuation, can present an obstacle when using a string function such as replace.

One way to resolve this is to replace or remove the offending punctuation before attempting the string replace.

example:

  TextBuffer  _tb1 = new TextBuffer();
  TextBuffer  _tb2 = new TextBuffer();
  str origvalue = "colon is here: abc";
  str newvalue = "colon is gone";

  //remove the colons
  _tb1.setText(origvalue);  
  _tb2.setText(newvalue);
  _tb1.replace("\\:","");
  _tb2.replace("\\:","");

  //set the strings to the resulting values
  origvalue = _tb1.getText();
  newvalue = _tb2.getText();

  //replace the first string with the second string
  _tb1.replace(origvalue, newvalue);

  print "resulting string is " + _tb1.getText();
  pause;