String Replacer only replaces one set of values and does not maintian previous changes

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I have a String of words EX " the Big and Bad Dog" and need to replace 2 words not next to each other (Big and DOG). I split the string up by words and then coded the string replacer to replace these words. This worked but now the 1st word comes back after being replaced already

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Steven Lord
Steven Lord on 10 Jan 2018
I can't be certain without seeing your code, but my guess is you did something like this:
oldString = "the Big and Bad Dog";
newString = replace(oldString, "Big", "Small")
newString = replace(oldString, "Dog", "Cat")
The problem is that the third line replaces "Dog" in oldString not the newString created on the second line. You could fix this by changing the third line:
oldString = "the Big and Bad Dog";
newString = replace(oldString, "Big", "Small")
newString = replace(newString, "Dog", "Cat")
Another alternative is to make both changes in one line.
newString = replace(oldString, ["Big", "Dog"], ["Small", "Cat"])

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 10 Jan 2018
S = 'the Big and Bad Dog';
regexrep(S, {'Big', 'Dog'}, {'Small', 'Pinata'})

Matt Brianik
Matt Brianik on 10 Jan 2018
Thank you, this works

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