From: j3n7il jones <jamescnewsom@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T02:34:19+09:00
Subject: Find Position of text

Im trying to recreate a function I had in Delphi for ruby, but cannot 
figure out how to search for a string withn a string

Here is the Delphi code

function ReplaceString(str, value, replacer: String): String;
var
  aPos: Integer;
  rslt: String;
begin
  aPos := Pos(value, str);
  rslt := '';
  result := str;//in case there is nothing to replace, return orig 
string
  while (aPos <> 0) do begin
    rslt := Copy(str, 1, aPos - 1) + replacer;
    rslt := rslt + Copy(str, aPos + Length(value), Length(str));
    str := rslt;
    aPos := Pos(value, str);
    result := rslt;
  end;
end;

As you can see after begin, it calls a pascal function called "pos"

which just looks for value(a string) within str (another string) and 
returns a number, the position of value within str.

Possible in ruby?

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