Re: Function "replace" for strings?

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> is there a built-in string replacing function?
> a = replace("ABC\\XYZ", "\\", "/") # a -> "ABC/XYZ"

you can use the following:

# replace "o" by "XYZ":
a="hello world"
b="echo ".a." | sed s=o=XYZ=g"
c=system(b)
print c

=> it prints:
hellXYZ wXYZrld


> It would be very useful especially when migrating between Linux and Win apps
> as Linux uses "/" as directory separator but Windows use "\".

This is not needed if gnuplot is compiled by a gcc-based suite on Windows; 
thus use always "/".

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Petr Mikulik