substitution of characters

[Chris Sharman]

>Is the following possible in powerhouse (quick,quiz) :
>
>I have an item (for example char*25) that contains "THIS IS A TEST         
> " and I want
>to convert the spaces to underscores so that the item contains 
>"THIS_IS_A_TEST___________"

Easy to change the trailing spaces:

def newval char*25 = truncate(oldval)+"_________________________"

Harder to change embedded spaces:

def spac1 int*4 = index(newval," ")
def newval1 char*25 = newval if (spac1=0) &
		else newval[1:spac1 - 1]+"_"+newval[spac1+1:25]
def spac2 int*4 = index(newval1," ")
def newval2 char*25 = newval1 if (spac2=0) &
		else newval1[1:spac2 - 1]+"_"+newval1[spac2+1:25]
def spac3 ...

You could do it better with procedural code (only in Quick).

If you changed the substitution character from "^" to " " in the dictionary,
you could use the substitute function to do it fairly easily in either Quiz,
Quick, or QTP.

Chris
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