: 'ello all...
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: Wonder if anyone can help...You know how most word processors and hex editors have a Find and Replace function (where the program searches thru' the file for a given string, and replaces it with a different string) would I be able to implement such a thing in Pascal? For example, get Pascal to open any file and change all occurrences of 'Apple' to 'Orange' or whatever...
Sure thats possible. I would open 2 files. 1 for input, 1 for output. Read a line from the infile, process it with Replace (see below for function), and write it to the outfile. When you reach the end of the infile, close and delete it. Then rename the outfile to the original name of the infile, and you're done.
{ S = The line of text to find/replace in }
{ Old = The text to delete }
{ New = The text to add }
{ Example: Replace('I want an apple', 'apple', orange' }
{ That would return 'I want an orange' }
{ Note..this is done from memory and untested...should work tho }
function Replace(S, Old, New: String): String;
begin
while (Pos(Old, S) > 0) do
begin
Insert(New, S, Pos(Old, S));
Delete(S, Pos(Old, S), Length(Old));
end;
Replace := S;
end;
