[DGD] string parsing..

[Erwin Harte]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:08:28PM +0200, Nico Lammers wrote:
> Speaking of parse_string()...
> 
> Could anyone give me a few (basic) examples of using it?
> I guess we can use it to search a string for a substring, or replace a
> substring
> or something?

Sure, but for non-regexp that's much more efficiently done using
explode() and implode().

  string str; /* Original string */
  string sub; /* Substring you're looking for */
  string rep; /* What you want to replace sub with */

  str = implode(explode(sub + str + sub, sub), rep);

Erwin.
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Erwin Harte <harte at xs4all.nl>
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