> How might I go about replacing a specific character in a
> string with another character? I'd like to get a random position in
> a string, then replace that specific character with something else.
>
> So I might start with: 'XXXXXXXXXX' (10 characters)
> I'd get a random position in that string (say 7).
> Then I'd replace the X at position 7 with a $
> giving me this: 'XXXXXX$XXX'
>
> Does CF have a "replaceAt" method?
No but there are a couple of options...
string = rereplace(string,"^(.{6}).(.*)$","\1$\2")
or
string = insert("$",removechars(string,7,1),7)
If you do this sort of thing a lot, you could write a UDF for it.
hth
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