Right, "replace" is the thing to use for a global replace task, but if you are doing a more sophisticated search/replace -- checking context of various matches and narrowing the search further -- the multiple offsets function is quite useful. Also, I need on occasion to find the *last* occurrence of a string in a container, and "item -1 of offsets(tString,tContainer)" is great for this.

-- Peter

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On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

Peter,

As David pointed out, you can do that easily with the replace command. I thought I'll mention this to avoid confusion.

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Op 10 apr 2010, om 20:28 heeft Peter Brigham MD het volgende geschreven:

The code above will find and replace the first occurrence of the string. For access to all the occurrences, use this handler:

function offsets str,cntr
-- returns a comma-delimited list
-- of all the offsets of str in cntr
if str is not in cntr then return 0
put "" into offsetList
put 0 into startPoint
repeat
   put offset(str,cntr,startPoint) into thisOffset
   if thisOffset = 0 then exit repeat
   add thisOffset to startPoint
   put startPoint & comma after offsetList
end repeat
delete last char of offsetList
return offsetList
end offsets

-- Peter

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