"Simon Wheatley (lists)" wrote:
> 
> Hello again, sorry for barging in with all my questions... I promise I'm doing
> my best to rtfm and google for the answers before asking.
> 
> I'm interested in replacing text within a string. See the psuedo-lingo below:
> 
> <pseudoLingo>
>   myTextString = "this is carolyn's text string"
>   myTextString = subStringReplace(myTextString, "carolyn", "simon")
>   -- where myTextString is the string to be operated on, "carolyn" is the
>   -- text to be searched for and "simon" is the replacement text
>   put myTextString
>   -- "this is simon's string"
> </pseudoLingo>
> 
> Is this possible?


If I'm not wrong the handler you're looking for is reported as an example
for the Lingo function 'offset()' in the help of Director 8/8.5
(on SearchAndReplace input, stringToFind, stringToInsert)

HTH,

Franco

IFC Programming Consultant
http://www.chnexus.com/athroon~/index.htm
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