| REPLACE | |
| Description
Replaces occurrences of substring1 in a string with substring2, in a specified scope. The search is case-sensitive. |
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| Returns
The string, after making replacements. |
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| Category
String functions |
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Function syntaxReplace(string, substring1, substring2 [, scope ]) |
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| See also
Find, REFind, ReplaceNoCase, ReplaceList, REReplace |
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| Parameters
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| Usage
To remove a string, specify the empty string ("") as substring2. You do not need to escape comma characters in strings. For example, the following code deletes the commas from the sentence: replace("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cow, dog, and
cat.",",","","All")
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Example<h3>Replace Example</h3>
<p>The Replace function returns <I>string</I> with <I>substring1</I>
replaced by <I>substring2</I> in the specified scope. This
is a case-sensitive search.
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.MyString")>
<p>Your original string, <cfoutput>#FORM.MyString#</cfoutput>
<p>You wanted to replace the substring <cfoutput>#FORM.MySubstring1#
</cfoutput>
with the substring <cfoutput>#FORM.MySubstring2#</cfoutput>.
<p>The result: <cfoutput>#Replace(FORM.myString,
FORM.MySubstring1, FORM.mySubString2)#</cfoutput>
</cfif>
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| STRING | |
| SUBSTRING1 | |
| SUBSTRING2 | |
| SCOPE | |