string find and replace

Ary Manzana ary at esperanto.org.ar
Thu May 3 09:01:34 PDT 2012


On 5/3/12 9:30 PM, Iain wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 14:22:57 UTC, Iain wrote:
>> Forgive me if I am missing something obvious, but is there a simple
>> option for finding all instances of a particular character in a string
>> or char[] and replacing them with another character?
>>
>> I can do this with std.regex, but it seems overkill, when all I want
>> is the equivalent of PHP's str_replace() function.
>>
>> Many thanks!
>
> Apologies, after half an hour searching, I post, then five minutes later
> figure it out.
>
> myString = replace(myString, to, from); // from std.array

Note that you can also do:

myString = myString.replace(to, from)

I'd point you to the reference on the official page (UFCS: unified 
function call syntax), but I can't find it...


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