by Anonymous (267 Submissions)
Category: String Manipulation
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Thu 17th December 1998
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Search and replace a string within another
VBcoders
Function sReplace(SearchLine As String, SearchFor As String, ReplaceWith As String)
Dim vSearchLine As String, found As Integer
found = InStr(SearchLine, SearchFor): vSearchLine = SearchLine
If found <> 0 Then
vSearchLine = ""
If found > 1 Then vSearchLine = Left(SearchLine, found - 1)
vSearchLine = vSearchLine + ReplaceWith
If found + Len(SearchFor) - 1 < Len(SearchLine) Then _
vSearchLine = vSearchLine + Right$(SearchLine, Len(SearchLine) - found - Len(SearchFor) + 1)
End If
sReplace = vSearchLine
End Function