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Re: String Processing Question [message #42997 is a reply to message #42850]

Thu, 03 March 2005 17:58

Craig Markwardt
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Benjamin Hornberger <benjamin.hornberger@stonybrook.edu> writes:
> David Fanning wrote:
>> Sobwom writes:
>>
>>> Try StrSplit():
>>> animal = 'Coyote'
>>> myString = 'My favorite animal is {1}.'
>>> newString = StrJoin(StrSplit(myString, '\{1\}', /Regex, /Extract, $
>>> /Preserve_Null), animal)
>> Now *that's* what I'm talkin' about! :-)
>> That whole "regular expression" business always makes
>> my eyes glaze over. I think because everyone who explains
>> it relies on the same UNIX man page. :-(
>
> Have a look at http://www.rsinc.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=311. No
> need for man pages, and it comes with a str_replace function.

...and the IDL Astronomy Library has the REPSTR() function.

Craig

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		Re: String Processing Question By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 March 2005 16:15
		Re: String Processing Question By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 03 March 2005 16:07
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		Re: String Processing Question By: Sobwom on Thu, 03 March 2005 13:47
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