Re: replace string question

[julian weaver]

here's a version I wrote for mac - just add your prefixes for windows

on replacePathForUnix me, trackpath

replaceDelim = "/"

  if the environment.platform contains "Macintosh" then
    myPrefix = "/Volumes/"
    findDelim = ":"
else
--// windows
        myprefix = ""
        findDelim = "\"
end if

    repeat while offset(findDelim, trackpath) > 0
      replaceChar = offset(findDelim, trackpath)
      put replacedelim into char replaceChar of trackpath
    end repeat

    return myPrefix&trackpath
end


On 23 May 2005, at 16:28, arjen wrote:

hi

this must be so easy, but i can't find the answer anywhere;

howto replace all occurences of a character in a string with another character?

the time i wasted with searching i could have also spent with making a handler that does that, but there must be a much faster way of doing it than looping through all chracters in the string,

test to see if it needs to be replaced?

actually i'm looking for a way to convert mac or pc paths into unix-style paths,

so instead of "HD:Users:pietje .." i want "/Users/pietje/.."
is there maybe a function to do that?


arri

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