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REPLACE

Replaces or removes a substring within the given string.

Syntax

REPLACE(STRING, SEARCH [, REPLACE])

Arguments

STRING

Type: string

The string to search.

Type: string

The substring to search for in STRING.

If this is an empty string, then REPLACE is inserted in front of every character and at the end of the STRING.

REPLACE

Type: string

Default: ''

(Optional) The string used to replace all found instances of SEARCH.

If omitted, all instances of SEARCH are removed from STRING.

Returns

Type: string

A substring of the input STRING.


Examples

STRING SEARCH REPLACE Output
string g strin
a a ''
a a b b
123 1 23
word word bird bird
word bird thing word
word or wd
word null null
null bird null

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