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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find/replace alpha characters in string Post 302932416 by goodbenito on Wednesday 21st of January 2015 11:47:00 AM
Old 01-21-2015
Find/replace alpha characters in string
Hi,
I would like to find a 3-letter character series in a string/variable and replace it with x's.

An example set of strings is:

Code:
563MS333_101_afp_400-100_screening
563MS333_104-525_rjk_525_screening
563MS333_110_dlj_500-100_w24
563MS333_888-100_mmm_424_screening

The only constants are: 565MS333 and the time points at the end of each string (so 'screening', 'w24', 'w48', 'w96'). The rest can be variable.

I am trying to replace the 3-alpha characters in between the 3-digit numbers with x's (so, *_xxx_*). The 3 alpha characters are usually between underscores, but not always.

Thanks for the help/input!
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-23-2015 at 01:59 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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dwtstextreplace

DwtSTextReplace(3Dwt)													     DwtSTextReplace(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtSTextReplace - Replaces a portion of the current text string in the simple text widget or inserts a new substring in the text.

Syntax
       void DwtSTextReplace(widget, from_pos, to_pos, value)
	    Widget widget;
	    int from_pos, to_pos;
	    DwtCompString value;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the simple text widget whose text string you want to replace.

       from_pos  Specifies the beginning character position within the text string marking the text being replaced.

       to_pos	 Specifies the last character position within the text string marking the text being replaced.

       value	 Specifies the text to replace part of the current text in the simple text widget.

Description
       The  DwtSTextReplace  function  replaces  part of the text string in the simple text widget.  Within the window, the positions are numbered
       starting from 0 and increasing sequentially.  For example, to replace the second and third characters in the string, from_pos should  be  1
       and to_pos should be 3.	To insert a string after the fourth character, from_pos and to_pos should both be 4.

See Also
       DwtSText(3Dwt),  DwtSTextGetString(3Dwt),  DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt),  DwtSTextSetEditable(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtS-
       TextSetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtSTextSetSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextClearSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetSelection(3Dwt)
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

															     DwtSTextReplace(3Dwt)
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