Replace this in variable to that...

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#1

Hey,
This may seem like a n00b question but I have never used something like this, what I need is some AS that can do something like this…


set myVar to "abc.abc..abc"
replace "." in myVar with " "
return myVar

what should be returned is “abc abc abc”.
Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

#2

Hi Captain,

text item delimiters are your friend

set myVar to replaceText("abc.abc..abc", ".", space)

on replaceText(theText, fromDelim, toDelim)
	set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, fromDelim}
	set theText to text items of theText
	set text item delimiters to toDelim
	set theText to theText as Unicode text
	set text item delimiters to TID
	return theText
end replaceText