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SUBSTITUTE Function 1
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I have actually just found the answer to my question:
in the SUBSTITUTE function you can have multiple pairs, e.g.
SUBSTITUTE("boat", "b", "c", "a", "o", "c", "b"
= "boot".
First the "b" is changed to "c" in the normal way ("coat", then the "a" is changed to "o" ("coot" and so on. I do not know in which version of Mercator this enhancement was introduced. I do (now) know that there is no limit to the amount of pairs you can have, within machine resources.
Thanks for your interest.
Umbogo
in the SUBSTITUTE function you can have multiple pairs, e.g.
SUBSTITUTE("boat", "b", "c", "a", "o", "c", "b"
= "boot".First the "b" is changed to "c" in the normal way ("coat"
, then the "a" is changed to "o" ("coot" and so on. I do not know in which version of Mercator this enhancement was introduced. I do (now) know that there is no limit to the amount of pairs you can have, within machine resources.Thanks for your interest.
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