[mabin]

Hi,

I am trying to do something simple, however seem to be struggling on how to do this with the blackberry.

I have a string, I want to replace part of it with something else, however the only option seems to be replace char. Which for me is useless.

String str = "some words"

str.Replace("words","crisps");

However this is invalid as not a char.

[kharnmcd]

try this

String str = "some words";

        str = str.replace("words","crisps");
        
        System.out.println(str);

[mabin]

thanks for the reply, however I get the following error

replace(char,char) in java.lang.String cannot be applied to (java.lang.String,java.lang.String)

[kharnmcd]

well that a bit annoying sorry i was presuming that it would work as standard java.
That means your going to have to do some dodgy loop function to go through your string i.e...

 String str = "some words";

                int getIndex = str.indexOf("words");
                
                String tempFirstStr;
                String tempSecondStr;
                String tempStr = "";
                
                if(getIndex >= 0)
                {
                    if(getIndex >0)
                    {
                        tempStr = str.substring(0,getIndex);
                        tempStr += " crisps ";
                        tempStr += str.substring((getIndex + 5),str.length());
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        tempStr =  " crisps "+ str.substring((getIndex + 5),str.length());
                    }
                }

obviously this is simplistic as per your example youll probably have to come up with something a bit more complex.

[mabin]

cheers for that, will give it a go.