Recent correspondence alerted me to the existence of an
existing standard J function that I ought to use in place of a
version I wrote. However, on reflection, I thought of a case
where the two are not equivalent:
('AA';'B') stringreplace 'AAA'
BA
('AA';'B') replace 'AAA'
BB
The latter simultaneously replaces both instances of "AA"
(the instance starting at position 0 and the one at position 1)
with "B"; the former is apparently replacing serially so doesn't
see the second, overlapping occurrence of "AA".
Does anyone have a thought to which behavior is "correct"
or at least better?
--
Devon McCormick
^me^ at acm.
org is my
preferred e-mail
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