STR REPLACE()

Class

String Data

Purpose

Function to search for and replace text within a character string or memo field

Syntax

STR_REPLACE(<expC1>, <expC2>, <expC3> | <memofield>)

See Also

AT(), ATNEXT(), CHRTRAN(), INLIST(), LEFT(), OCCURS(), RAT(), RIGHT(), STR(), STREXTRACT(), STRTRAN(), STUFF(), SUBSTR()

Description

The STR_REPLACE() function will search <expC3> or <memofield> and replace text within <expC3> or <memofield> with <expC2> wherever the occurrence of <expC1> is found. The STR_REPLACE() function returns a character expression that contains the result of the string replacement.

NOTE: The PHP numeric count argument to return the number of matched and replaced <expC1> strings is not supported.

Example

? str_replace("ello", "i","Hello World")
Hi World

Products

Recital Server, Recital