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Short description

Replaces the first occurrence of a given text with the given replacement.

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This function replaces the first occurrence of a given text with a given replacement.

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findReplaceFirst(text, textToBeReplaced, replacement) #Output: Text
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%{findReplaceFirst("Goodbye my love, hello my friend.", "my", "your")}

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Goodbye your love, hello my friend.

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Parameters used in this function

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text

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Any given text.
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The string that should be replaced.
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The replacement for the first found substring matching the textToBeReplaced.
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If you want to use a regular expression instead, have a look at replaceFirst().

If you want to replace all occurences of a substring, have a look at findReplaceAll().

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Replaces the first occurrence of a given text with the given replacement.

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