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
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>     -- NullGrey
>
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