From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-11-16T19:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: replace a very long string with gsub get regexp error

Ahmad Azizan wrote:
> lala = "Replaced string"
> 
> input = input.gsub(data, lala)
> 
> Is there any other method for that string replacement like in this case
> beside using gsub?

Here's one option:

input = "aaaabbbaaaabbbaaaaabbbaaaabbbaaaa"
data = "bb"
lala = "zz"

pos = 0
while pos = input.index(data, pos)
  input[pos, data.size] = lala
  pos += lala.size
end
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