Wow, this is really amazing.

You just taught me a new feature of Squeak I didn't know about.

Thanks, Daniel On Mar 29, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Jim Menard wrote:

Daniel,

On Mar 29, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Daniel Salama wrote:

...

Is there an easy way to do search and replace within a string.

For example, give: 'this is foo test' to replace foo with bar and end up with: 'this is bar test'?

Thanks, Daniel

P.S. Sorry for the simple question but I just can't find the answer. I would assume there is an easy way of doing this other than involving "complicated" logic using String#replaceFrom

I didn't know the answer, either. However, I do know about the Method Finder. (World Menu -> open... -> Method Finder). I opened that and in the top left pane, I typed

'this is foo test'. 'foo'. 'bar'. 'this is bar test'

and hit enter. It found

SequencableCollection>>copyReplaceAll:with: String>>copyReplaceAll:with: Text>>copyReplaceTokens:with:

So, 'this is foo test' copyReplaceAll: 'foo' with: 'bar' does what you want.

Jim

Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm/ "Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight monkeys, five minutes." -- NullGrey

Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:

At last one good example of using Method Finder, Have you more examples ? Here in Argentina we have a beginners group and we are collecting material for translate to Spanish.

Sorry, I don't have a collection of them. Try simple things like

3. 4. 12

to see

3 * 4 --> 12 3 lcm: 4 --> 12

or

'text'. 'TEXT'

to see

'text asUppercase --> 'TEXT'

Typing the arguments and the result doesn't always find what you are looking for, because sometimes there is no one single methd that does what you want. I can't think of a concrete example right now.

More frequently, I enter a method name fragment to find all method names that match. For example, when I want to find methods that return information about instance variables, I type

instance

in the top pane. That returns a lot of methods.

Jim

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:22:30 -0300, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001@yahoo.com.ar wrote:

Have you more examples ?

100. 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000.

Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

Here in Argentina we have a beginners group and we are collecting material for translate to Spanish.

So, make it a game - who finds the funniest/most esoteric/... example of a 'Method finder pattern'?