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  3. February 2006

Re: substring replacement

Check out %Replace.

On 2/18/06, brian <bsl04@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I want to do substring replacement so that a string like "Blah blah
> %LIB%/%OBJ%" turns into "Blah blah SOMELIB/SOMEOBJ". That is, I want to
> replace tokens like %LIB% with other strings of unknown/different lengths.
> I could use %subst, but then I think I'd have to specify a length, so the
> resulting string might look bad, like "Blah blah A         /B".
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