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' Subject: SEARCH AND REPLACE STRING          Date: 12-24-96 (14:46)       
'  Author: Kurt Kuzba                         Code: QB, QBasic, PDS        
'  Origin: FidoNet QUIK_BAS Echo            Packet: TEXT.ABC
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'>   I already submitted a short program to search and replace
'>   instances of any combination of characters.  (The person
'>   asking was asking for code to s/r %? codes.)  (I didn't
'>   keep a copy of it.. darnit.... oh well.)
'>   I was basically saying that INSTR only tells you where
'>   the text starts at, as I interpreted the message as
'>   referring to INSTR searching and replacing...
'>.....
'   Right. You have to find the end of the word yourself.
'Since you already know the length of it, though, that is easy.

'_|_|_|   SANDR.BAS
'_|_|_|   A simple search and replace for QBasic strings.
'_|_|_|   No warrantee or guarantee is given or implied.
'_|_|_|   Released   PUBLIC DOMAIN   by Kurt Kuzba.  (12/24/96)
DECLARE SUB SandR (text$, OldT$, NewT$)
PRINT CHR$(13); "Begin Search and Replace test."
text$ = "Ellie's groovy boot reserves flavors"
PRINT text$
OldWord$ = "boot": NewWord$ = "boy": rl% = LEN(OldWord$)
SandR text$, "ellie's", "Every"
PRINT text$
SandR text$, "groovy", "Good"
PRINT text$
SandR text$, "boot", "Boy"
PRINT text$
SandR text$, "reserves", "Deserves"
PRINT text$
SandR text$, "flavors", "Favor"
PRINT text$
SUB SandR (text$, OldT$, NewT$)
   rl% = LEN(OldT$): found% = INSTR(UCASE$(text$), UCASE$(OldT$))
   IF found% THEN
      part1$ = "": IF found% > 1 THEN part1$ = LEFT$(text$, found% - 1)
      part2$ = MID$(text$, found% + rl%)
      text$ = part1$ + NewT$ + part2$
   END IF
END SUB
'_|_|_|   end   SANDR.BAS