Suggestion / Request

[PepsiHog]

I love the command StringReplace. It's very simple and powerful. But I would like to see an addition to this command. How many times it should replace the string.

The current way is:

let>example=The apple is red. The sky is blue.
StringReplace>example,is,was,example

This returns:
The apple was red. The sky was blue.

What I'd like to see is:
let>example=The apple is red. The sky is blue.
StringReplace>example,is,was,example,1

Notice the addition of ",1" at the end of StringReplace.

This would indicate to replace only the first found string.

So your result would be:
The apple was red. The sky is blue.

This ofcourse is a very basic example. You may have a string of numbers and want to remove the first number that repeats more than once in the whole number. Such as 283628. You could replace the first, but not the second.

Also maybe to make it even more flexible add a START_AT_POS variable.

[adroege]

Here is a method to study.

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//replace only first instance of pattern in string

Let>text=The apple is red. The sky is blue.
Let>pattern=....(is)....
RegEx>pattern,text,0,matches,num,0
StringReplace>matches_1,is,was,r2
Let>pattern=%matches_1%
RegEx>pattern,text,0,matches,num,1,r2,r
MessageModal>r

[Marcus Tettmar]

For just the first match:

Let>text=The apple is red. The sky is blue.
Let>pattern=^(.*?)is
RegEx>pattern,text,0,matches,nm,1,$1was,new_text

[adroege]

Very clever with the $1 syntax -- however I could find no mention
of this in my help file!

[jpuziano]

Hi adroege,

Very clever with the $1 syntax -- however I could find no mention
of this in my help file!

That's probably because its a RegEx thing... not a Macro Scheduler thing.
For examples, try a Google search for $1 against the forums and you'll get some interesting and relevant posts like these:

Capture group in RegEx?!
Converting capital letters to small letters

...and there are lots more... all from the forums... the "help file that writes itself".

Take care

[PepsiHog]

Thanks everyone.

I didn't know. Knowing is half the battle. G.I. Joe.

[PepsiHog]

Just looked up RegEx on the web.

On a side note.....

I don't know what you people be smoking!!!!

But it MUST be DAMN GOOD!!!

Where can I get some of that?