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a simple question

 
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hi.. i have a question regarding Swapping of characters in a string that uses stringbuffer..
like
StringBuffer codestring="abcdefghijkl"..how do i swap the char 'a' with 'd' in the string so that final string is like..
codestring="dbcaefghijkl"..
 
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Try this

 
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Originally posted by vidya sagar:
Try this



Dear Vidya,

This will only replace 'a' to 'd' not the 'd' to 'a'. He might want to replace these 2 chars simultaneously.
 
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This will only replace 'a' to 'd' not the 'd' to 'a'. He might want to replace these 2 chars simultaneously.



Hi Ankur

i just seen how do i swap the char 'a' with 'd' in the string this sentence.Poster doesnot say about vice versa.If he/she wants wants then we will come with some other solution.
 
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how do i swap the char 'a' with 'd' in the string this sentence.Poster does not say about vice versa


I'm not a native English-speaker, but I think swap is not the same as replace, which is what you are referring to. Swap indeed means that the two items in questions switch their places, so there really is no "vice versa" - both happen at the same time.

One possibility would be to replace 'a' by a completey different character -which you can be sure does not otherwise occur in the string-, then replace 'd' by 'a', and then the other character by 'd'.
 
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Ulf,You are correct.But Anyway i am looking for the real poster to reply on this regard.BY the way i am also not native Speaker of English.
 
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waiting for response from topic starter, anyway have this too



Hope it is little big....
 
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You may use this version if you like it

[ July 13, 2006: Message edited by: karthi keyan ]
 
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bit more simpler method


 
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Really Simpler One.with one drawback,Suppose swap characters occurs more than once it will not work. Eg:abcdefghijkla
 
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you will also note that the original poster said

how do i make this:
abcdefghijkl

look like this:
dbcaefghijkl

note that here it's quite clear they mean "make all 'a's in the original into 'd's, and all 'd's into 'a's...
 
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Here's a replace based on REXX syntax. Note how it can be used to rearrange a string. You could use that to swap characters based on position. I bet it would not give correct results on translate AD to DA.

This is very old code with a semi-hungarian prefix naming thing that I outgrew ...

The left() method pads or truncates as necessary to left justify.
 
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