REPLACE SUBSTRING FUNCTION

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Hi -

Does anyone know if Brightscript has a replace function to replace s substring of text?

for example, I would like to do something like this…

string = “this is a file name.mp4”
newstring = replace(string," “,”%20")

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You can find it in generalUtils.brs in the videoplayer example.

'******************************************************
'Replace substrings in a string. Return new string
'******************************************************
Function strReplace(basestr As String, oldsub As String, newsub As String) As String
    newstr = ""

    i = 1
    while i <= Len(basestr)
        x = Instr(i, basestr, oldsub)
        if x = 0 then
            newstr = newstr + Mid(basestr, i)
            exit while
        endif

        if x > i then
            newstr = newstr + Mid(basestr, i, x-i)
            i = x
        endif

        newstr = newstr + newsub
        i = i + Len(oldsub)
    end while

    return newstr
End Function
3

Also, for your specific example, you might be interested in roUrlTransfer.Escape( string ).

String Escape(String text)
URL encode the specified string using CURL.

4

“evilmax17” wrote:
Also, for your specific example, you might be interested in roUrlTransfer.Escape( string ).

String Escape(String text)
URL encode the specified string using CURL.
And/Or UrlEncode()…

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thanks guys