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translate - Translate Function

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax

... translate( val = text from = from to = to ) ...

Effect

This function returns the character string from text with each character that occurs in from replaced by the character that occurs in the same place in to as in from. If to is shorter than from, the surplus characters from from are removed from the character string. If from is an empty string, the content of text is returned unchanged.

from and to are character-like expression positions. If they have a fixed length, trailing blanks are ignored.

The return code has the type string.

Example

The return value of the following function call is "Horray!".

DATA(result) = translate( val = `---Hur-rah!---` from = `uh-` to = `oy` ).