String Search & Replace?

[Kenneth Brody]

Joe Chasan wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:19:15AM -0500, Tim Fischer wrote:
> > I'm running into an issue where I need to take all the "'s out of a string
> > and replace them with \".  It needs to be entirely dynamic as I don't know
> > where in the string the "'s will be.
[...]
> while i agree that the help for xlate does not specifically state you
> can us it on multiple occurences of the same character or string, but
> it does - in the time it took you to type your message, you could just
> as easily have typed in a simple test
> @wlf1::1=xlate(1,chr("34"),chr("92")); display; end
> 
> plugged in some sample data on screen and see it work.

He wants to replace the single character "quote" with the pair of
characters "backslash-quote".

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