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Newbie Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 7

is it possible to convert a arry to a text.
i mean if
#var str %array("a","b","c")
how i can get a text "a|b|c" from variable "str"

of couse , we can use a loop to do it.
but if there is a better way to solve it?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

I assume you mean you want to have "a|b|c" = "abc"? That's the easy part:

%replace(A, B, C)

A = the original text to work with (this can be a literal string like "this is a test" or it can be a variable or function result)
B = the exact substring within A you want to look for (again, literal string, variable, or function result)
C = the exact substring you want to replace B (ditto)

The far harder thing to do is to make "abc" = "a|b|c". There's no simple function do this, so you are practically required to use a looping structure coupled with some combination of the %left/%right functions.

If all you want is to get "a", "b", or "c" from the variable, just use %item().