[Gambas-user] simple replace question

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Bruce schrieb:
> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 23:00:00 Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> 
>> Strange. replace(st,"½",".5") works on my system.
>>
>> Gambas 2.11.1
>>
>> Saluti,
>>
>> Stefano
> 
> Damn!  And I still can't get it working.  The only thing I've been able to 
> decipher is that Len(st)=4 not 3.  Using gambas 2.9.?? as its the latest 
> available for PCLinuxOS (see below).
> 


The version will not matter, I guess. Try converting your string into 
ASCII before replacing:

newString = Conv(st, "UTF-8", "ASCII")

Replace(st, "½", ".5")

On my old ASCII-table ½ is chr$(171). So it should work with this one, 
as it's known in ASCII.

If you get an error 32, your string wasn't UTF-8. Next idea: use 
String.Code to find out the Hex-code of each single character in "st". 
Then rewrite the replace function for this combination of characters  - 
something like Replace(st, chr$(30) & chr$(1) & chr$(123), ".5")...

Hope it helps...


Rolf