Sebastian Nozzi wrote:
Hello List,
I've been struggling a bit with some basics about Strings for which I
couldn't find an answer (yet).
1) How to construct a String from Characters?
For example, I want to construct a String from the Chatacter literals:
$H $I
Character cr
$T $H $E $R $E
Dirty solution:
|col str |
col := OrderedCollection new.
col add:$H
;add: $I;
add: (Character cr);
add:$T;
add: $H;
add: $E;
add: $R;
add: $E.
str := String new.
col do: [:element | str := str, element asString].
^str.
This probably creates a bunch of unnecessary string objects, but I can
never remember the best implementation.
2) How to replace a sequence of Characters in a String for others?
For exaple, I want to replace every 'HI' (in this case only one) for
'HELLO' in the String above (not necesarily destructively, getting a
new String is also ok). Is there a quick way to do that?
How about this?
| str3 str2 str index |
str := 'HI THERE'.
str2 := 'HI'.
index := str findString: 'HI'.
"str := str replaceFrom: index to: str2 size with: 'HELLO' startingAt:1."
str3 := 'HELLO', (str copyFrom: (index + str2 size) to: (str size)).
^str3
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