RE: substring replacement

Do you have RPG xTools?
If so, use the FindReplace() function.
The full helptext for it is at this URL:
http://www.rpgxtools.com/Helptext/findreplace.html

This would work:

eval myVar = FindReplace('%OBJ%' : 'SOMEOBJ' : myVar )

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of brian
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:47 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: substring replacement

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".