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Re: String Processing Question [message #42980 is a reply to message #42864]

Fri, 04 March 2005 08:40

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Norbert Hahn writes:

> Why is there a need to use /Regex and thusly quoting the braces?
>
> Wouldn't
>
> StrJoin(StrSplit(myString, '{1}', /Extract, /Preserve_Null), animal)
>
> be sufficient?

IDL> animal = 'Coyote'
IDL> myString = 'My favorite animal is {1}.
IDL> print, StrJoin(StrSplit(myString, '{1}', /Extract, /Preserve_Null),
animal)
My favorite animal is CoyoteCoyoteCoyote.

It's good for emphasis, but beyond that, I think
the previous example is better. :-)

Cheers,

David
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