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How to replace search string with replace string?


Asked by Dexter Hickman on Dec 10, 2021 FAQ



So I wrote this keeping in mind that the search string may appear many times in the original string. Here is the algo: Get the original, search and replace string from the user. Write a user defined function to replace the first occurrence of the search string with the replace string.
Also Know,
To configure the Search and Replace String function to accept backreferences in replace string, right-click the function and select Regular Expression . offset determines the number of characters into input string at which the function starts searching for search string.
Keeping this in consideration, Excel has a great built in function called SUBSTITUTE which allows you to find one bit of text within another text string and substitute it for another bit of text. In the above example we can use the SUBSTITUTE function to replace all instances of apples with cookies using the following formula.
Additionally,
Java String replaceFirst () Java String replaceFirst () method replaces ONLY the first substring which matches a given regular expression. Matching of the string starts from the beginning of a string (left to right). At the end of call, a new string is returned by the Java replaceFirst () function.
In addition,
SQL provides a very helpful string function called REPLACE that allows you to replace all occurrences of a substring in a string with a new substring. The following illustrates the syntax of the REPLACE function: REPLACE (string, old_substring, new_substring);