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[draigGoch]

Does anyone know of any replace whole word functions for ASP?
I can't seem to find any on the net - and i know other people must have been in this situation before. I want to replace all instances of a word - but only the whole word.

Example:
Search for "tone"

replaces "tone", "tone.", "Tone", "Tone,"
but not "stone", "toned"

I have no idea on how to do this.... help please!
Do i need to use regular expressions (and if so - help again!!)



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[johnwm]

Put a space either side of tone. In other words use " tone " as your search string instead of "tone"

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[johnwm]

You may also need to look at punctuation marks.

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[draigGoch]

yes that's the problem. I can't put a space either side when searching because you could have a sentence finishing:

"....... the desired tone."

Which does not have a space either side. I can't think of a straightforward way of doing it!

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[tsuji]

[tt]dim s,t,rx
set rx=new regexp
with rx
.pattern="\btone\b"
.ignorecase=true
.global=true
end with
's being the pre-replaced string
t=rx.replace(s,"string-to-replace-tone-ignore-case")
[/tt]

 

[draigGoch]

That's it - a bit of fiddling and it worked. Thanks tsuji, I knew that regular expressions were handy but I never used them before! Have a star............



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