You can use an array of characters instead of a string. This allows you to modify individual characters as necessary. Alternatively, an array of UInt8 make make sense (if you only need ASCII characters).
-erik On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > Strings are immutable. There is no API to do this. You can construct a new > string object by doing s[1:1]*"b"*s[3:end]. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Dongning Guo <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Simple question: How to change the character at a specific position of a >> string? Searched for a while in vain. Thanks. >> >> >> For example: >> >> *julia> **s=^("a",4)* >> >> *"aaaa"* >> How to change the second character to *'**b'*, that is to change s to: >> >> *"abaa"* >> >> >> >> >> > -- Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/
