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Problem 43280. Replace x value into y value in string text.

Created by Andriy Kavetsky

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Replace x value into y value in string text. Example text='Hello World' x='World', y='Universe' result='Hello Universe'.

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Last Solution submitted on Jan 13, 2025

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 10 Oct 2016

So we can use the ans trick again ?
But we can't use something like :
function text = Replace(text,x,y)
tructruc(text,x,y)
Strange no ?

Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 14 Oct 2016

regexprep doesn't modify directly str
For example :
str='Jean'
regexprep(str,'e','a')
ans='Jaan'
but str is always = 'Jean'

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