ReplaceAll - DfBaseRichEdit

Replaces all occurences of sTarget with sReplacement and returns the number of replacements

Type: Function
Return Data Type: integer

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
sTarget	string	String to be replaced with sReplacement
sReplacement	string	String to take the place of sTarget

Syntax

Function ReplaceAll string sTarget string sReplacement Returns integer

Call Example

Get ReplaceAll sTarget sReplacement to integerVariable

Description

Replaces all occurences of sTarget with sReplacement in control and returns the number of replacements made.

This method has no effect if control is not paged.

Sample

This sample replaces all occurences of "Mike" in control oRichEdit1 with "Michael" and then displays the number of replacements made in a message box to the user.

Procedure ReplaceAll
    integer iReplacementCount

    get ReplaceAll of oRichEdit1 "Mike" "Michael" to iReplacementCount

    send Info_Box (string(iReplacementCount) + " replacements performed")
End_Procedure // ReplaceAll

See Also

FindText | ReplaceSel

Return Value

Number of replacements made. If no repalcements were made, returns 0.