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This function replaces the first substring matching the given regular expressionwith the given replacement.


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replaceFirst(text, regex, replacement) #Output : Text


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replaceFirst("Hello World", "l", "_")


This example returns the following text : "He_lo World"



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Parameters used in this function

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text

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Any given text.
regex

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A valid regular expression that grabs the substring to be replaced.
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This text will replace the substring found by the regex.



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This function returns a

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If you want to replace all matching occurrences with the replacement, have a look at the replaceAll() function.

replaceFirst("Hello World", "l", "_")replaceAll("Hello World", "l", "_")
"He_lo World""He__o Wor_d"


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If you don't want to use a regular expression, have a look at the findReplaceFirst() function.




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cqllabel = "parser_func_replacefirst" and space = currentSpace()


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Short description

Replaces the first substring matching a given regular expression with a given replacement.

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