Synopsis Replace all occurrences of a string in another string.
Function
str replaceAll(str subject, str find, str replacement)
Usage
import String;
Description Return a copy of
subject in which all occurrences of find (if any) have been replaced by replacement.
Also see replaceFirst and replaceLast.
Examples
rascal>import String; ok rascal>replaceAll("abracadabra", "a", "A"); str: "AbrAcAdAbrA" rascal>replaceAll("abracadabra", "ra", "RARA"); str: "abRARAcadabRARA" rascal>replaceAll("abracadabra", "cra", "CRA"); str: "abracadabra"
Pitfalls Note that
find is a string (as opposed to, for instance, a regular expression in Java).