Manuals/calci/REPLACE

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REPLACE (Old_Text,Start_Num,Num_Chars,New_Text)


  • where is the original or old text
  • is the character position in old text
  • is the number of characters to be replaced in old text
  • is the new text that replaces the characters in old text
    • REPLACE(), replaces characters within text.

Description

REPLACE (Old_Text,Start_Num,Num_Chars,New_Text)

For Example,

REPLACE("WELCOME",4,4,"-COME") returns WEL-COME

In above example, original text is replaced with new text from 4th character to next 4 characters.

  • and should be enclosed in quotes.
  • and should be positive numbers.
  • If and are non-integers, they are truncated.
  • If > 'length of ' , Calci assumes it to be '0'(zero) and new text is appended before old text.
  • If any arguments are invalid, Calci displays an #ERROR message.

Examples

ColumnA ColumnB ColumnC
123456
replace
ABCDEF
Mango
=REPLACE(A1,2,1,"two") : Replaces second character from old text with "two". Returns 1two3456 as output.
=REPLACE(A2,3,5,"PLACE") :Replaces 5 characters from old text starting from 3rd position with upper case "PLACE". Returns rePLACE as output.
=REPLACE(A3,6,1,"fghijk") : Replaces 6th character from old text with lower case "fghijk". Returns ABCDEfghijk as output.
=REPLACE(A4,8,1,"Apple ") : Appends "Apple " before old text as snum is greater than length of old text. Returns Apple Mango as output.

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