On Friday, March 21, 2014 11:37:33 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Getting back to your original example, I would counter that you never > really want to just do something like "replace the 16th character of this > string" in isolation. How did you figure out the index 16? What you really > want to do here is replace every instance of the NUL byte with a space. The > replace function will do that for you: >
Categorical assertions like "you never really want to just do " are (almost) never correct. :) E.g., if you're trying parse and update or correct a legacy database changing the 16th char might be just the thing. Perhaps it would be a good idea to add this functionality to replace?
