Re: conditional replace

Subject: Re: conditional replace
From: &quot;Thomas A. Schmitz&quot; &lt;thomas.schmitz@ ... &gt;
Date: 2007年9月17日 17:42:56 +0200

On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Tomas Guisasola Gorham wrote:

	Hi Thomas

for l in string.gfind(MyText,"localgreek%b{}") do
 l = string.gsub(l,'a','Î±')
 print(l)
end

	You can use gsub for everything:
-- untested
string.gsub (MyText, "localgreek(%b{})", function (l)
	return string.gsub (l, 'a', 'Î±')
end)
	Tomás

Hi Tomás!

This looks very promising and very elegant! I'll try to construct adictionary for the substitutions, and then I would be done! Thanks a lot

Thomas

References:
- conditional replace, Thomas A. Schmitz
- Re: conditional replace, Tomas Guisasola Gorham