StrClean versus StrReplace

Keywords: 	   StrClean versus StrReplace

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Question:

The following code does not function as I think it should. I'm expecting the resulting msg to read, "Have a rotten night," but instead a get gibberish with the "rotten" string repeated multiple times. What do I need to change?

a = ""
a = StrClean("Have a nice day","nice","rotten",@TRUE,1)
a = StrClean(a,"day","night",@TRUE,1)
Message("", a)
Drop(a)

Answer:

StrClean is not designed to do what you want. StrClean is going to replace each 'character' with the corresponding replacement string..

I think the function you want is StrReplace, which replaces all occurrences of a sub-string with another.

a = "Have a nice day"
a = StrReplace(a ,"nice","rotten")
a = StrReplace(a,"day","night")
Message("", a)
Drop(a) 

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Article ID:   W14597

Filename:   StrClean Function.txt