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Re: String substitution system

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• Subject: [mg97388] Re: String substitution system
• From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:19:45 -0500 (EST)
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Sure:

In[188]:= StringReplace["ABCXCDBXCBDXXBD", "X" ~~ Y_ :> Y ~~ "Z"]

(note the :> instead of the ->)

Out[188]= "ABCCZDBCZBDXZBD"

Cheers -- Sjoerd

On Mar 11, 12:08 pm, Hauke Reddmann <fc3a... at uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> THX for the answers. While I'm at it anyway,
> is it still that easy when I need substitution rules
> with placeholders? E.g. XY->YZ for fixed X,Z
> but any string Y?
>
> --
> Hauke Reddmann <:-EX8    fc3a... at uni-hamburg.de
> Nur Schufte schuften - Genie genie=DFt.

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