string find and replace

[Ary Manzana]

On 5/3/12 11:01 PM, Ary Manzana wrote:
> 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...

and it should be replace(from, to)