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STRTRAN ​

Replaces each occurrence of the specified character string with another character string. You can specify where the replacement begins and how many replacements are made.

Reporting Area(s) ​

General Student Manager and ACEweb

Required Parameters ​

  1. Expression/field to search (i.e. conoteprt, pcPayPrompt)
  2. Expression to search for (i.e. " : ", "credit card")
  3. Expression to replace every occurrence of the searched for expression specified in step 2 (i.e. " - ", "Visa or Master Card")

Optional Parameters ​

  1. Numeric return value: which occurence to replace
  2. Numeric return value: number of occurrences to replace

Example(s) ​

STRTRAN(conoteprt," : "," - ") replaces every occurence of [space]:[space] with [space]-[space]

STRTRAN(pcPayPrompt,"credit card","Visa or Master Card") replaces the words 'credit card' with 'Visa or Master Card' in the pay prompt message on ACEweb's individual course information page.

Notes ​

Standard FoxPro Function

SUBSTR